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What Heart Failure Taught Me About the Way We Keep Going
This is worth pausing on, because she said it with complete sincerity.
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"I Am Fine" Is the Most Expensive Sentence We Are Taught to Say
She called at 11:14 on a Wednesday night. My phone buzzed on the counter while I was finishing a patient note, and I answered without looking at the name.
KOORA: The Word in My Mother Tongue That Means to Finish
Gokoora: to finish without flinching. The Ekegusii word from a Kisii childhood that became the name of the flagship, and why the mother tongue had the answer.
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The Microvascular Self: What Cardiology Taught Me About the Inner Life
The heart fails in small vessels before it fails on the angiogram. So does a life. A cardiologist on the microvascular damage of a thousand tiny self-betrayals.
The Nine Chambers: A Diagnostic Map for the Unfinished Life
Nine chambers, one honest walk-through. A diagnostic map for locating exactly where your life went quiet, and what is waiting in the room you keep walking past.
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The Parked-Car Moment: The Emergency You Treat Is Running in You
A few minutes past midnight on a Saturday, halfway through a twenty-eight-hour shift, I sat in a grey Toyota Corolla on the third level of a hospital parking garage.