Sublime

“genuinely curious about, well, really everything.”

Je craignais d’être sur le point de me transformer en l’archétype du médecin de Tolstoï, empli d’un formalisme vide, essentiellement concentré sur les méthodes de traitement et manquant cruellement de recul sur le sens plus large de l’existence humaine.

could only have come from someone who had been chronically ill and understood the indignities of hospital life.

Part of the problem, he argued, is that young scientists are rushed to specialize before they learn how to think; they end up unable to produce good work themselves and unequipped to spot bad (or fraudulent) work by their colleagues.

Mitch Katz directs the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, the second-largest county health care system in the country. He described to me how economic incentives can stack up against upstream care. “Because there’s been little money toward prevention, there’s no payer or mechanism for prevention research like there is for medical res

Arrowsmith,

Étais-je tombé dans le travers de tous les patients qui consiste à espérer qu’on est au-dessus du lot ?