Of all the world’s errors, he seemed to feel, the most fundamental was the “erasing” of people, the “hiding away” of suffering. “My big struggle is how people can not care, erase, not remember.” I had wondered if there was room in his philosophy for anyone but the world’s poor and people who campaigned on behalf of the poor. One day on an airplane, he confided to me that he thought of all our fellow passengers as patients. An attendant’s voice had said over the intercom, “Is there a doctor onboard?” He’d gotten up at once and ministered to a middle-aged, evidently middle-class American man
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