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On Being · September 5, 2024 · 50m
Rachel Naomi Remen — How We Live With Loss (re-release)
Classic re-release. Rachel Naomi Remen — physician, author of Kitchen Table Wisdom — on the difference between curing and healing. You can heal even when you can't cure. Healing is about wholeness, not the absence of disease.
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Remen: meaning in medicine comes not from curing (which often fails) but from healing — being present to suffering, bearing witness, and restoring wholeness. Healing is a form of moral responsibility.
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Remen: the healing relationship is mutual — the patient heals the doctor as much as the doctor heals the patient. Every genuine encounter with suffering transforms the witness.
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