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Jan 19, 2012
"It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood." --David Hume
A Doctor's Notes on Hurt & Healing in Haiti
"There is always humming from somewhere. It is usually low and musical as patients try to distract themselves from phantom limb pain that is not at all phantom. It is 13 days after the earthquake. I am coordinating a 12-member team at St. Marc's hospital, a government facility on the west coast of Haiti." In this gripping piece, poet-doctor Sriram Shamasunder covers life and death, resilience, compassion, healing and hope as he describes the experience of working in Haiti directly after the earthquake.
BE THE CHANGE
Spend healing time this week with someone who is in the hospital or coping with illness.
