"I thought about how easy it is, with the time pressures of medical practice, to ignore social history, habits, the sorts of things that make a patient into a real person — and vice versa."
That's how a physician reflected upon going to a young patient's funeral and learning about the personal life of the man he had been treating. The complete New York Times essay is here. The sentiment is probably true for many people we think we "know"--professional acquaintances, clients, neighbors. Imagine the richness we can add to our lives if we simply say to someone, "Tell me about yourself."
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