“When you see someone dying in front of you from a direct and simple cause, it's easier to deal with [that] than famine or drought or a more indirect cause. It's overwhelming and frightening and kind of distant, but we do see it every day with plants and animals and species dying.” KindCausesSimpleAnimalDealsDyingFrontsEasierDirectPlantSpeciesOverwhelmingFrighteningFamineDroughtIndirectPlants And AnimalsSomeone Dying Author:John H Richardson
“There are so many kinds of different feelings - not good feelings - going on in the room, and he comes in with so much compassion. He's a straight talker and pulls them into what feels like a really positive action-struggle kind of feeling. Without seeing that, you might have all kinds of judgments or feelings about what might go on in a place like that. But it felt akin to a spiritual healing more than I could have possibly anticipated.” FeelsKindDifferentFeelingsMightActionSpiritualFeltRoomsHealingCompassionStruggleSeeingGoes OnJudgmentAll KindsSpiritual HealingTalkersGood FeelingReally PositiveDifferent Feelings Author:John H Richardson
“I don't think in the religious way that most people associate that word with, but Hern is a committed guy. He's doing the hardest job with the late-term thing. I don't think that's easy on a person, especially under the kind of terrorism that doctors of his kind have seen over the past twenty years. He's a tough guy.” PeopleThinkingWayYearsKindPersonsJobsPastGuyEasyTermReligiousLateToughDoctorsTwentiesCommittedTerrorismHardestAssociatesOver The PastTough GuyHardest Job Author:John H Richardson