Resisting Callousness

Self-Care

[This essay is the text of a 20-min talk I gave on this date at Medical Grand Rounds at Rochester ...

I. "Kindness" by Naomi Shihab-Nye Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve ...

I offer this poem and Padraig O Tuama’s comments to remind us of the deep and sustaining compassion that is ...

“Death destroys a man; the idea of Death saves him.” (EM Forster, Howard’s End) An alien virus (“the Chinese virus”) ...

I’d like to speak up for making medicine (not just internal medicine, but any health care profession) a calling to ...