“All Eyes On Flipbooks” by Peace
An observation of how sounds, images, and control of speed can affect the ability to absorb information
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The most important part of that whole interaction? Warm, live, human skin on warm, live human skin. I've held hands with my patients--not often enough, but I've done it. Occasionally, at the end of the day, I'll go into a patient's room without isolation gear on (please note that I know I won't have to see anybody else that evening) just so they can see, and touch, somebody who isn't dressed head-to-toe in plastic. I've touched people who were dying, without gloves on, because everybody else was somehow afraid to--and, dammit, if you don't need the skin-to-skin contact of another human when you're dying, when will you need it?

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