People are afraid to be friendly because kindness is perceived as flirting.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,


And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.


I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference

There are two types of people:
the WHY?
And the WHY NOT?

- Ryan Hall's mom

the story of making a diagnosis is the most complex and exciting story that doctors tell. Just as Sherlock Holmes or Gil Grissom (CSI) delights in explaining the crime to victims and colleagues, doctors take pleasure in recounting the completed story of their complex diagnoses, stories where every strange symptom and unexpected finding, every mystifying twist and nearly overlooked clue, finally fit together just right and the diagnosis is revealed.

- Every patient tells a story, by Lisa Sanders

مصدر مال فسلجة كلش لطيف...
ما بيه نفس الهوسة مال المعلومات اللي ممكن تلكوها بـ Guyton & Hall وبنفس الوقت يربط هواي من وظائف الأعضاء ببعضها بحيث ينطي فكرة لطيفة ومترابطة عن الفسلجة مال الجسم كله، مو بس يشمّر معلومات مطشرة ما بينهن ربط

قريت جزء من فصل الـ kidney وجان كلش يشجع عالقراءة أكثر من باقي المصادر

The hand is the visible part of the brain

- Immanuel Kant

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pain and suffering are very different. Pain, according to Cassell, is an affliction of the body. Suffering is an affliction of the self. Suffering, writes Cassell, is a specific state of distress that occurs when the intactness or integrity of the person is threatened or disrupted. Thus, there are events in a life that can cause tremendous pain, and yet cause no suffering. Childbirth is perhaps the most obvious. Women often experience pain in labor but are rarely said to be suffering.
And those who are suffering may have no pain at all. A diagnosis of terminal cancer, even in the absence of pain, may cause terrible suffering. The fears of death and uncontrollable loss of autonomy and self combined with the fear of a pain that is overwhelming can cause suffering well before the symptoms begin.

- Every patient tells a story

أذكر قريت هيج شي بكتاب Sapiens، أعتقد بالفصل قبل الأخير؛ مثلًا ذكر أنّ الأشخاص ذوي الأمراض المزمنة ممكن يعيشون حياة نفسية شبه طبيعية إذا حالتهم وألمهم بقى نفسه وما صار اسوأ.

الفكرة هي أنّ أشياء مثل السعادة والشقاء هي مقاييس نسبية مو مطلقة. إذا صارلك شي يبعث على السعادة، فبعد فترة رح يكون جزء من يومك وحياتك الطبيعية. بالنتيجة، رح ترجع لنفس المستوى من الرضا عن حياتك ورح تحتاج شي جديد حتى يزيد سعادتك... نفس الشي ينطبق على المعاناة

In other studies, doctor and patient disagreed about the chief complaint—the reason the patient came to see the doctor—between 25 to 50 percent of the time. This is information that can come only from the patient and yet, time after time, doctors fail to obtain it.

Lack of training may also contribute to the problem. Doctors spend two years in classrooms learning how to identify and categorize disease processes, matching symptoms to known disease entities, but until recently very few programs offered any training on how to obtain that essential information. The assumption seemed to be that this did not need to be taught. And there may have been an unspoken expectation that our improved diagnostic technology would reduce our dependence on this kind of personal information. Studies have shown that neither assumption is true.

- Every patient tells a story

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat

- Robert Frost