Beyond Caring Quotes

“One must develop a feel for the music, probably over time, and then give oneself over to it. This is neither completely a function of the music itself nor of the listener; it is an interaction of the two. The listener must at some point take on the appropriate attitude to be able to hear what is happening in the piece. Similarly, a nurse must give herself to the rhythm of the hospital, must “get into” what is happening; she must accept its normality and take up its rhythms and melodies as her own. So the leap into a routine, where to the layperson there is chaos, cannot be impelled by all of the training that has come before. Routinization of this world (or any other) remains a free lived act of the individual.”
― Daniel F. Chambliss, Beyond Caring: Hospitals, Nurses, and the Social Organization of Ethics