What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.

We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.

Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.

If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.

Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.