Quotation: the cords between people

Especially in this time of managed care, more emphasis seems to be placed upon medication and the quick amelioration of symptoms, short-term work and privatized, profit-making clinics, than upon the lovely and mysterious alchemy that comprises the cords between people, the cords that soothe some terrors and help us heal. Lauren Slater, quoted in John Fox, Poetic Medicine: The Healing Art of Poem-Making p 29

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