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"WHY ARE WE SO BAD AT CARING FOR THE DYING?"
PUBLISHED ON SEED MAGAZINE / BY / AUGUST 30, 2010
We stand under the bright, warm lights of the surgery room with young surgeon Pauline W. Chen. As the lights illuminate the hairs on the back of her neck, we watch her as she pokes a hole through the patient’s belly, into his diaphragm. Our fingers fuse with hers, as she clears away the cobweb-like tissues between the heart and the spine. Soon our entire arm has penetrated the body of another person. Between the transgression of the act and the reassurance of that warm space, we feel, as she does, the hardness of the vertebral bones on the back of the forearm. Against the tender skin on the underside of our wrist, we, too, are surprised by the strong, twisting contractions of the heart.
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