Sublime

And their mutual trust was the basis of the medical decision. The late beloved Mass General physician Dr. Morton Swartz once said: Patients don’t care what you know until they know that you care.

The devil is walking around the halls of a Boston hospital making deals with the patients and their families. And there’s a “What would you do?” built in: “What would you give to save the life of a loved one?”

Charles Segal, a recently retired Harvard professor of classics who taught my Greek Tragedy course, spoke about how the Oedipus trilogy reminded him of Erik Erikson’s three stages of development. In youth, Professor Segal said, a person struggles to figure out who they are in relation to their parents (a real head scratcher in Oedipus’s case). In m

many professionals would like to believe that all client needs fall into this Brain Surgeon category, such clients represent only a small proportion of the aggregate fees spent in any given practice area.

All learn from their dark shadows.

“See one, do one, teach one” was the pedagogic approach to everything from performing a lumbar puncture to managing heart failure.