Livre d'Or

I thought this season was going to be a no-go for socializing, it was just a not very well thought-out suggestion. Lending books can happen any time in the next several months when you're not IN THE MIDDLE OF FINALS.

And yes, really interesting stuff about helping specific people rather than finding out general principles, whether that's natural science mechanism or trying to fix things about society that led to the person having the problem. I am much more a helping individuals right now kind of person, which is why I hesitate to even call myself an activist at all. I think my big-picture contribution, if anything, is going to be helping to push forward the frontiers of knowledge about cancer a teeny tiny bit, but that's by no means what I think everybody should be doing.

I suspect that distinction may connect to how annoying paternalistic doctors are thinking, though, when they lie to patients and prescribe quasi-placebos. Like, they may think, this person here in front of me right now is going to be helped most by a simple and over-optimistic story about how this magic pill will make them better. Even if in general it's really dodgy on informed consent grounds to give anything other than a detailed explanation of the complex and sometimes contradictory research on the treatment.

Completely agree about comorbidities and invisible illnesses, though.