If I Became Just A Brain In

We Look For Medicine To Be An Orderly Field Of Knowledge And Procedure. But It Is Not. It Is An Imperfect Science, An Enterprise Of Constantly Changing Knowledge, Uncertain Information, Fallible Individuals, And At The Same Time Lives On The Line. There Is Science In What We Do, Yes, But Also Habit, Intuition, And Sometimes Plain Old Guessing. The Gap Between What We Know And What We Aim For Persists. And This Gap Complicates Everything We Do.

Expertise Is The Mantra Of Modern Medicine.

When [disease] Can't Be Stopped, That's Where We Become Lost.

In Every Industrialized Nation, The Movement To Reform Health Care Has Begun With Stories About Cruelty.

Man Is Fallible, But Maybe Men Are Less So.