I came to recognize this theme of people—both in health care and in other spheres—making suggestions. In general, it wasn’t the suggestions themselves that were irritating, but the insistence, evidenced by the repeating of the idea, and the tone of having discovered the source of something akin to cure, when in fact the suggestions were not helpful, or seemed not to be based in our immediate reality. Later, I became better at recognizing genuinely helpful ideas, or at least the people whose thoughts were based in logic and in our needs. I also became better at recognizing the others, those
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