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despondency.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
our medical system, for all its extraordinary capabilities, is ill-equipped to handle the steep rise in this kind of chronic illness. That system is great at providing acute care and terrible at managing the complexities of long-term care.
Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
the discomfort I felt then was not the loss of but the return to myself.
Suzanne Koven • Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life
What kind of life exists without language?
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
Lucy and I both felt that life wasn’t about avoiding suffering.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place. —Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor
Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
Death, so familiar to me in my work, was now paying a personal visit. Here we were, finally face-to-face, and yet nothing
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
take me many more years to understand about myself as a doctor and then as a writer: that I can only be who I am. And that this is OK.