“I always talk about a scar: that the wound never goes away, but that it gets covered by some protective tissue, more and more each year. And then one woman says to me, ‘Yes, and then the tissue grows so thick you can’t see out.’ ” He looked at me: “You have some people who absorb everything you say, as if it’s all wise and useful. And then there are others who argue all the time—those patients are exhausting, but I think you learn more from them.”
