Sublime

Neurosurgery attracted me as much for its intertwining of brain and consciousness as for its intertwining of life and death.

despondency.

By 1932, the historian Henry E. Sigerist had noted that medicine’s systemizing impulses were “no longer concerned with man but with disease,” as Anderson and Mackay point out.

on the subject, notes that some of the medical students who interviewed her when she worked as a standardized patient “seem to understand that empathy is always perched precariously between gift and invasion.”

Capacious