A poem arrives on thin, pale paper, bound to a withered branch. It speaks softly of the exhaustion of too much care, the heavy burden of words. One should read it, let the sleeve fall, and simply watch the rain. Instead, the receiver, bursting with earnest helpfulness, immediately grinds fresh, thick ink to explain to … Continue reading Pillow Book: A.I. Reads the Message in a Branch
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The Most Useful Word in Medicine
The Most Useful Word in Medicine One in nine of the physicians in the largest recent study of doctors who left American medicine never practiced it. They finished medical school. They finished residency — eight to ten years, the better part of a million dollars, the eighty-hour weeks, the whole sunk-cost cathedral — and then … Continue reading The Most Useful Word in Medicine
