Are Doctors Who Make Mistakes Villains? No,

Developing A Skill Is Painful, Though. It Is Difficult. And That's Part Of The Satisfaction. You Will Only Find Meaning In What You Struggle With. What You Struggle To Get Good At Next May Not Seem The Exact Right Thing For You At First. With Time And Effort, However, You Will Discover New Possibilities In Yourself-an Ability To Solve Problems, For Instance, Or To Communicate, Or To Create Beauty.

The Evidence Is That People Who Enter Hospice Don't Have Shorter Lives. In Many Cases They Are Longer.

No One Teaches You How To Think About Money In Medical School Or Residency. Yet, From The Moment You Start Practicing, You Must Think About It. You Must Consider What Is Covered For A Patient And What Is Not.

The Possibilities And Probabilities Are All We Have To Work With In Medicine, Though. What We Are Drawn To In This Imperfect Science, What We In Fact Covet In Our Way, Is The Alterable Moment-the Fragile But Crystalline Opportunity For One's Know-how, Ability, Or Just Gut Instinct To Change The Course Of Another's Life For The Better.

At Times, In Medicine, You Feel You Are Inside A Colossal And Impossibly Complex Machine Whose Gears Will Turn For You Only According To Their Own Arbitrary Rhythm. The Notion That Human Caring, The Effort To Do Better For People, Might Make A Difference Can Seem Hopelessly Naive. But It Isn't.