Maggie Mahar: “Statistics measure only what can be counted. Many of the things that are most important, in medicine as in life, are immeasurable. Stories are valuable because they can capture some of the messiness of reality, including the ambiguities and contradictions that make both human experience and the human mind/body just beyond comprehension.”
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