“One wants to know whether, in the end, her troubles were physical or psychological. But it is a question as impossible to answer as whether a blush is physical or mental – or, for that matter, whether a person is. Everyone is both, inseparable even by a surgeon’s blade.”

“One wants to know whether, in the end, her troubles were physical or psychological. But it is a question as impossible to answer as whether a blush is physical or mental – or, for that matter, whether a person is. Everyone is both, inseparable even by a surgeon’s blade.”

— Atul Gawande