CURE Quote
Technological intervention may ameliorate or even cure the disease but not the illness. To treat illness, the healer must dare to meet the patient in the messy, confusing, always special context of lived experience.
— Kleinman, Arthur, Illness Narratives : Suffering, Healing, and the Human Condition, 2020Archives
Monthly Archives: September 2016
Learning to Die with Your Disease
Have you heard the latest ‘medical wisdom’? It’s become a mantra for chronic diseases, from arthritis, to diabetes, to depression to dementia. “Learn to live with your disease.” But it’s a lie. What is really being said is “Accept the fact … Continue reading
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What if Mass Murders are Suicide Attempts?
Did you see the news about yesterday’s suicide? No, you didn’t. News agencies seldom report suicides. Suicide.org offers guidelines to news agencies on how to report suicides because, “the way suicides are reported in the media can either CAUSE suicides … Continue reading
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