The first time I saw Antony Gormley’s “The Field“, I was transfixed. The room filled with those hundreds of small terracotta creatures all gazing at me gazing at them!
It’s an image which has stayed with me ever since and it’s one I think all health care professionals should expose themselves to.
Every patient I see has something in common with some other patients I’ve seen. That’s the basis of “diagnosis” in the way biomedicine considers disease. But every patient I meet is different. No two have the same experience of this disease. No two tell the same story. And here’s another aspect to that…….nobody stays the same, the story constantly evolves and changes. Without attention to the present, without an open-ness to difference, we fail to see what makes every single human being unique and special.
Heroes Not Zombies 
Oh, so very wise. While it is true we are all connected, it is also true that we each make choices that alter our being in diverse ways. It is important for all healers to remain open and to never get caught in the “God” trap, i.e. believing they know it all or have seen it all.