Doctors in highly charged fields met patients at inflected moments, the most authentic moments, where life and identity were under threat; their duty included learning what made that particular patient’s life worth living, and planning to save those things if possible – or to allow the peace of death if not. Such power required deep responsibility, sharing in guilt and recrimination.
-Paul Kalanithi
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