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… Reviews Good Medicine? “He was OK.” This anonymous comment stung more than the blatantly negative reviews that … simply: “Muy bueno.”). And I readily accept feedback that points me toward things I need to improve (“I felt very … appear daily on crowdsource platforms of patient review websites and carry growing influence in patients’ medical …
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… I imagine these things, the less real they are likely to become. I believe, against all reason and everything I know as … the toxicity of keeping secrets. One of his early studies showed that people who wrote about their traumas were … that many children feel. Grealy recalls that at various points in her treatment and its aftermath her cancer …
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… greatest single public reputation and career in America to come out of World War I. By and large, the dominant American … the sinking of the Lusitania. More than one thousand people died when that liner, the largest passenger ship afloat, … was advancing— “isolationism.” It is necessary to make two points about this expression of isolationism in 1915. First, …
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… when she was forty-three. I was thirteen. My mother was commensurate with the world, the first person to teach me I … waste? Was she still my mother by then? On October 26, 1986, two weeks after my mother’s death, my father wrote … same faraway look of longing as my mother. After my mother died, I fought with her until one day when I realized she …
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… That we deceive. That we covet. That we love. That we die. That we remember. Our symposium is entitled “Lyric … place of the popular in a seemingly hermetic site? How do communities, indeed how do urban and technological … often marks the origin of the personal lyric. But, Schmidt points out, this overlooks three significant things: the …
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… American Family’s Curious Bond With Russia It may sound incomprehensible— senseless , Constance Garnett would have put … or on the history of the Soviet Union. And though I studied Russian in college, just so I would know what my … beef, and dill, which my mother, stylish in strappy sandals and a silk wrap dress after a day at the office, would …