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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
confine the spread of venereal disease
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
medical rite of passage and a trespass on the sacrosanct, engendering a legion of feelings: from revulsion, exhilaration, nausea, frustration, and awe to, as time passes, the mere tedium of academic exercise.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
with curiosity and compassion.
Dr Julie Smith • Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?: The Sunday Times bestseller, with over 1 million copies sold
inert.
Lisa Taddeo • Animal: A Novel
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.
Suzanne Koven • Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life
If the weight of mortality does not grow lighter, does it at least get more familiar?