But what does he do to qualify as a sonovabitch?โ Jenny asked. โMake meโ, I replied. โBeg pardon?โ โMake meโ, I repeated. Her eyes widened like saucers. โYou mean like incest?โ she asked. โDonโt give me your family problems, Jen. I have enough of my own.โ โLike what, Oliver?โ she asked, โlike just what is it he makes you do?โ โThe โright thingsโโ, I said. โWhatโs wrong with the โright thingsโ?โ she asked, delighting in the apparent paradox.
Erich SegalI was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.
Erich SegalWe have turned doctors into gods and worship their deity by offering up our bodies and our souls - not to mention our worldly goods. And yet paradoxically, they are the most vulnerable of human beings. Their suicide rate is eight times the national average. Their percentage of drug addiction is one hundred times higher And because they are painfully aware that they cannot live up to our expectations, their anguish is unquantifiably intense. They have aptly been called 'wounded healers.' " ~ Barney Livingston, M.D. (Doctors, 1989)
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