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Dec 29, 2012
"If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay." --Stephen Levine
Finding Healing for the Healers
"Seventeen years ago in the Boston Globe Magazine, a dying man issued a plea for greater compassion in medicine. He worried that medical professionals faced increasing work demands that prioritized efficiency over empathy. Kenneth Schwartz died of lung cancer two months later, but not before founding an organization that would bring increased attention to the importance of human interactions in medicine."
BE THE CHANGE
This powerful passage by an extraordinary doctor and writer describes the differences between "Helping, Fixing and Serving." More ...
