In our 'don't just sit there, do something' culture, when we get sick we are supposed to become characters in a heroic medical narrative that conceals the remorselessness of pathology, the intractable fact of human vulnerability, and the inevitable inadequacies… — Suzanne Gordon Copy Share Image
America must deal once and for all with an utterly irrational health care financing system that allows private interests to make billions in profits… — Suzanne Gordon Copy Share Image
In our 'don't just sit there, do something' culture, when we get sick we are supposed to become characters in a heroic medical narrative… — Suzanne Gordon Copy Share Image
Today age segregation has passed all sane limits. Not only are fifteen-year-olds isolated from seventy-year-olds but social groups divide those in high school from… — Suzanne Gordon Copy Share Image
Divorce is one of the loneliest of modern rituals. Before, during, and after the actual culmination of the legal process it is an ordeal… — Suzanne Gordon Copy Share Image
Nursing may be the oldest art, but in the contemporary world, it is also one of the most invisible. One of the most invisible… — Suzanne Gordon Copy Share Image
The association between failure, loneliness, and solitude is so strong in our culture that people often find it difficult to believe that there are… — Suzanne Gordon Copy Share Image
