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2020-09-25T02:26:54.274Z


Only with a robust and universal public health system is it easier to recognize a fellow citizen as an equal. Forgetting the relevance of the caregiver class would be an unacceptable sequel to this pandemic


Eulogia Merle

Diseases attack the cells of the body.

Also those of language, words.

They destroy the syntax.

The difficulty of describing pain in a coherent way carries with it a particular loneliness.

In the medical consultation, the patient's doubting phrases come out choppy.

What is a priority to comment?

And how?

When more lucidity is needed, this seems like an unattainable privilege.

Finally, it is the medical jargon and the technical language of tests and analysis, devoid of emotion, that go to the aid of the patient's muteness.

The betrayal of the body puzzles, because it explodes that b ...

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