As he watches a man slip away, a soon-to-be-doctor contemplates life, death and everything else in-between. DEAFENING silence. Of all the oxymora in the English language, I like this best. It is spot-on, terse, succinct. For it not only captures the gravity of a situation, but also the human response to it. It encapsulates what it means to be human. Deafening silence. It illustrates that, in the moments of our greatest ecstasy, our greatest anxiety, our greatest anguish, we unwittingly choose to remain mute. We choose to hold o
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