insights

One of the things I love most about medicine is how much you learn from others, both patients and fellow providers. In these ways they remind me of what I love about books and writers--the ability to express something you've felt but have never quite expressed in the way that most embodies the feeling.

From a patient, on adapting to life in prison: "It's like when your body doesn't get what it needs for so long, it forgets how to ask for it."

From a physician, on advice to our graduating residency class: "Remember that you are not there to save them, but to witness them."