Wahl Memorial Lecture, 11/2/2023
By Resisting Callousness |
[This essay is the text of a 20-min talk I gave on this date at Medical Grand Rounds at Rochester ...
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I. "Kindness" by Naomi Shihab-Nye Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve ...
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In my view, the main problem with Justice Alito’s leaked SCOTUS opinion is that it suffers from a lack of ...
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Taking care of COVID patients has been an awful, traumatic experience for frontline clinicians, due in part to new realization ...
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I write in solidarity with health care workers caring for COVID patients. Expressing gratitude and christening them as heroes have ...
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I offer this poem and Padraig O Tuama’s comments to remind us of the deep and sustaining compassion that is ...
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This summer I read a helpful book, The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout. It describes a certain type of ...
Read More Letter to graduating residents, 2020
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June 15, 2020 Good morning, newly certifiable internists: I thoroughly enjoyed being in the audience at your graduation ceremony. Your ...
Read More “Death destroys a man; the idea of Death saves him.”
By Resisting Callousness |
“Death destroys a man; the idea of Death saves him.” (EM Forster, Howard’s End) An alien virus (“the Chinese virus”) ...
Read More Resisting callousness through sharing and reflection
By Resisting Callousness |
How can we can enhance compassion and resist callousness? Through sharing and reflection. I believe strongly that intentionally sharing the ...
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