Tag: Charles H. Halsted
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Compassion
Charles HalstedDavis, California, United States Formed and found in the human soul lies the wellspring of compassion.Seeing yourself in the other, the other in yourself is the essence of compassion. Selfless caring without condition for the unfortunate ones without voice,feeling the pain of another, accepting without judgment is compassion. Caring for someone in need or…
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Tales out of medical school
Charles H. HalstedDavis, California, USA In first-year anatomy class, I shared a rectangular metal table with three other twenty-one-year-old men and our assigned corpse, a blank-eyed, obese, and lifeless white seventyish woman. Half of my classmates were former Eastern prep school boys, the others mostly Jewish men from New York City. There were two women…
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Letter to Pa
Charles HalstedDavis, California, USA I heard our tire chains clacking on slushystreets, then waited freezing, short legs dangling, watching you—warm coat against the cold, your bag in hand—walk through the opened door, return after half an hour with a fresh loaf of bread, the way you were paid in those late depression years. A few years later, world war raging, a…