A Suprising Number Of Physicians Manage To

Human Beings Tend To Regard The Conventions Of Their Own Societies As Natural, Often As Sacred.

... As We Age We Have Not Only To Readdress Earlier Developmental Crises But Also Somehow To Find The Way To Three Affirmations That May Seem To Conflict. ... We Have To Affirm Our Own Life. We Have To Affirm Our Own Death. And We Have To Affirm Love, Both Given And Received.

...a Disgruntled Reflection On My Own Life As A Sort Of Desperate Improvisation In Which I Was Constantly Trying To Make Something Coherent From Conflicting Elements To Fit Rapidly Changing Settings.

Every Loss Recapitulates Earlier Losses, But Every Affirmation Of Identity Echoes Earlier Moments Of Clarity.

A Suprising Number Of Physicians Manage To Continue To Care About Persons Even After The Rigors Of Medical Training.