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The sophia and phronesis of modern medicine

Meaghan O’Connor Durham, North Carolina, United States   The Doctor. Luke Fildes, 1891. Tate Gallery, London. Via Wikimedia.  My first clinical experience was working as a hospice aide my sophomore year of college. During that experience I watched my first patient suffer—physically and spiritually—and eventually die. Not bound by the time constraints of more formal […]