{"product_id":"9780997262957","title":"FIRST, DO NO HARM","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Robert Fagles’ translation of Vergil, Aeneas,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econtemplating the Trojan War cries out, “The\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eworld is a world of tears, and the burdens of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emortality to touch the heart.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaura Brylawski-Miller intuits the lacrimae\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ererum, the tears in things throughout her poetry,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand it is not only a result of the classic education\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eshe received in her native Italy, but a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eguiding insight that directs her view of the world,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe shape of her soul. Like the Buddha of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSokkuram, she is stunned by the suffering she\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esees in the world and is left with the only possible\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eresponse, compassion for the human condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompassion in her, however, is not naiveté. This\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eintuition is perhaps what first led her to medicine,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe sensitivity for the pain of others, the need to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eheal, even when that healing process means\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edebriding dead tissue with her poetic scalpel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“First, do no harm,” the Hippocratic oath\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edemands, but sometimes it requires severe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emeasures as every surgeon knows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Poets Choice Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47010324250864,"sku":"9780997262957","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780997262957_p0.jpg?v=1763955732","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780997262957","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}