We Have Medicalized Aging, And

You Want To Ensure People Can Do It Right 99 Percent Of Time. When We Have To Fire One Of Our Surgical Trainees, It Is Never Because They Dont Have The Physical Skills But Because They Dont Have The Moral Skills - To Practise And Admit Failure.

When We, Doctors, Ask Patients What Their Priorities Are If Time Is Short, What We Do Is We Use What Is Available To Us - Whether It's Geriatric Care Or Palliative Care Or Hospice Care - To Make Sure They're Living The Kind Of Life That They Want To Live.

I Learned About A Lot Of Things In Medical School, But Mortality Wasn't One Of Them.

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

A Failure Often Does Not Have To Be A Failure At All. However, You Have To Be Ready For It-will You Admit When Things Go Wrong? Will You Take Steps To Set Them Right?-because The Difference Between Triumph And Defeat, You'll Find, Isn't About Willingness To Take Risks. It's About Mastery Of Rescue.