“Can I ask you a question, doctor?
“Do you hear all of what I say through the earpiece of a physician, a psychologist? What I talk to you about here: do you receive it always as being the words of a disease that needs to be treated, or do you sometimes empathize, and hear me just as another person? What am I to you?”
Nah. kinda like I can’t get endoplasmic reticulum outta my head. Once something is in a petri dish or under a microscope… Or in a gaping hospital gown that removes ANY semblance or dignity…it’s a bit harder to look at with any kind of interpersonal connection. Not impossible, just harder.
Profound.