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A Doctor's Privilege

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Mariateresa Fichele

A rainy day.

On the television, people are talking and talking and talking.

I get ready to go to work.

I'll have to knock on some doors, and people will let me in with a smile.


What a privilege to be a doctor.

Worlds that are revealed to you and, occasionally, universes that open wide.

The suffering of those who talk and talk and talk is harder to comprehend than the vastness of the Milky Way.

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"Oh, to sleep as soundly as a man," marvels our Naples-based psychiatrist.

"Because the ceiling lamp isn’t moving"

Mariateresa Fichele

I can feel the earthquake. Or at least, I think I can, because the ceiling lamp isn’t moving. I run upstairs in a frenzy to check on my son. He is sound asleep.

My husband is asleep, too. He hasn’t felt the earthquake, but he has heard me move about. Of course he has.

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