Don’t think I ever spent a minute of any day wondering why I did this work, or whether it was worth it. The call to protect life—and not merely life but another’s identity; it is perhaps not too much to say another’s soul—was obvious in its sacredness. Before operating on a patient’s brain, I realized, I must first understand his mind: his identity, his values, what makes his life worth living, and what devastation makes it reasonable to let that life end. The cost of my dedication to succeed was high, and the ineluctable failures brought me nearly unbearable guilt. Those burdens are what make medicine holy and wholly impossible: in taking up another’s cross, one must sometimes get crushed by the weight.
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SEAN PAUL The Jam went through a phase of wearing satin jackets. But that was pre-getting signed and making it... PAUL WELLER It is possible for the assembly-line worker consigned to tightening the bolts on the transmission an... PAUL HAWKEN The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. JEAN PAUL Traditionally, our ancestors boiled mushrooms in water to make a soothing tea. Boiling served severa... PAUL STAMETS Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains. PAUL WHITEMAN In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that n... PAUL DIRAC It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" -- not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only y... PAUL GOODMAN The look of a king is itself a deed. JEAN PAUL A universe that came from nothing in the big bang will disappear into nothing at the big crunch. Its... PAUL DAVIES