Sublime

The prescribed separation between a doctor’s clinical and personal selves is now often called “professionalism.” Recently, this term has been challenged as possibly sexist, racist, and homophobic.

Moral law is an invention of mankind for the disenfranchisement of the powerful in favor of the weak.

Je les connaissais, ces carnets. Ton père me les avait montrés quand il avait commencé. Il voulait se souvenir de chacune de ces personnes, de leur âge, de leur maladie, de l’heure de leur mort. Il en était en partie responsable. Ces carnets, c’étaient ses archives intimes, pas secrètes, mais intimes. Il m’avait expliqué qu’en aidant ces gens à mou

As documented by Sherwin Nuland, clinical professor of surgery at Yale University and National Book Award winner for How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter, many Americans have fallen prey to the idea, now avidly marketed by many big players in the health care industry, that medicine can offer a remedy to nature.