Dan BuettnerA doctor may know more than a peasant, but a peasant and a doctor know more together.
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When you are suffering from a serious illness, it is very difficult to accept that the doctor knows more than you. Even if he is the world’s greatest doctor, when suffering feels so real that you can’t imagine how you would recover, it is hard to believe that he may be better than you in some ways. However, when suffering leads to knowledge, suffering leads to wisdom. The doctor and the peasant know more together than any doctor knows alone. They learn from each other and together they become stronger.
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