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A primary care physician’s gut feelings
To spend an entire college year (two semesters) studying epistemology seemed like a colossal waste of time when I was 19. We had no choice; we had to take it, and I got a pretty good mark, as I recall. It took a half year to find out what it was about,…
Glowing and beaming represent physical evidence of joy in life
Glowing and beaming. Applying these terms to people has become somewhat dated, but to students of human nature, and especially doctors who meet people under all sorts of unusual circumstances, they still apply. A former colleague of mine, who worked in…
