When our focus is toward a principle of relatedness and oneness, and away from fragmentation and isolation, health ensues
Dr Power stood up. __ecause your staff are not components that can be fitted in, or replaced when they are unpredictable, or when they are simply being human. Because our patients are not playing a game called __usiness_ with profit and loss and winners and losers. Because patients have no choice, but to be patients and it__ our privilege to be in a temporary position where we can help them. And, inevitably, when we ourselves fall ill; when we grow old, then we can only hope that we will receive the help we ourselves need in turn. Because that__ the reality of life. And not some self-aggrandising game". - Dr Power, speaking in The Good Shepherd
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Dr Power stood up. __ecause your staff are not components that can be fitted in, or replaced when they are unpredictable, or when they are simply being human. Because our patients are not playing a game called __usiness_ with profit and loss and winners and losers. Because patients have no choice, but to be patients and it__ our privilege to be in a temporary position where we can help them. And, inevitably, when we ourselves fall ill; when we grow old, then we can only hope that we will receive the help we ourselves need in turn. Because that__ the reality of life. And not some self-aggrandising game". - Dr Power, speaking in The Good Shepherd
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