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Human Practice
What Is Found There
… Santayana once noted. I shared his words recently with an audience of doctors, bioethicists, and psychologists during a … they might make meaning out of medicine (and were perhaps also thankful for an hour off from the wards). Practitioners … And in casting for this vernacular, the physician shares a common purpose (though not method) with Rorty himself: …
Human Practice
Mutations
… a Pandemic    Has there ever been a disease so intensely studied and so intensely controversial as Coronavirus Disease 2019? We have come to know more more quickly about COVID-19 than we have … Control and Prevention, the mRNA class of vaccines was also found to be 94 percent effective at preventing …
Human Practice
Hunger Games
… by the desire to eliminate sugar—all refined sugar—from my diet. In retrospect, it probably wasn’t the best time to add … was beginning—after the years of sleep deprivation that come with medical training and being a parent—to show signs … choices: to open this door or that window. But there is also a flip side to that freedom: the power to say no. To …