"Much medical training is about information and knowledge and less about traveling the more difficult path of feeling…it’s crucial for doctors to stay with the feeling, listen feelingly, and not turn away from the pain and suffering in patients and themselves. There is one shining difference between knowledge and understanding: We doctors may forget knowledge, but we never forget what we understand. We understand through feeling."
- Samuel Shem, “Fiction as Resistance”
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