Sublime

Freud jotted down a few more sentences

“Not gifted with genius but honestly holding his experience deep in his heart, he kept his simplicity and humanity.”

even at one of the world’s great academic medical centers you can easily declare yourself an expert in a condition that no one else wants to deal with.

In recent years, it’s been recognized increasingly that patients who feel that their doctors care about them and relate well to them are more likely to express satisfaction with their medical care, take medications as prescribed, experience less pain and anxiety, have better control of conditions like diabetes and asthma, and are less likely to ini

Endless books and authors followed, as we worked our way methodically down the list: The Count of Monte Cristo, Edgar Allan Poe, Robinson Crusoe, Ivanhoe, Gogol, The Last of the Mohicans, Dickens, Twain, Austen, Billy Budd … By the time I was twelve, I was picking them out myself, and my brother Suman was sending me the books he had read in college

In May 1940, Germany abruptly overran Holland and Belgium, then attacked France. Fighting on the front, Bost was wounded, and would receive the Croix de guerre. Paul Nizan, Sartre’s old friend and recent holiday companion, was killed near Dunkirk on 23 May, shortly before the great evacuation of Allied troops there. Merleau-Ponty was posted as an i

Morantz-Sanchez quotes Professor Henry Hartshorne, delivering the 1872 commencement address at the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania: It is not always the most logical, but often the most discerning physician who succeeds best at the bedside. Medicine is, indeed, a science, but its practice is an art. Those who bring the quick eye, the recept