America must deal once and for all with an utterly irrational health care financing system that allows private interests to make billions in profits from the pain and suffering of their fellow citizens. America is the only country in the… — 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 that conceals the remorselessness of pathology, the intractable fact of human vulnerability, and the inevitable inadequacies of medicine. To many of the participants in the medical drama, aggressive treatment - even when it fails - represents… — Suzanne Gordon Copy Share
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
