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… Abraham Verghese discusses some of the consequences of not attending to our patients as persons.

Luigi Giussani in The Religious Sense makes much the same point in quoting and discussing a passage of Alexis Carrel … “as everyone knows, few observations and much discussion are conducive to error; much observation and little discussion to truth … In fact, ours is an age of ideologies, in which, instead of learning from reality in all its aspects and building on it, man seeks to manipulate reality according to coherent schemes fabricated by the intellect; thus the triumph of ideologies ratifes the defeat of civilization.” (Reflections on Life – Alexis Carrel quoted in Giussani p. 3)