The physician’s duty is not to stave off…

The physician’s duty is not to stave off death or return patients to their old lives, but to take into our arms a patient and family whose lives have disintegrated and work until they can stand back up and face, and make sense of, their own existence.

―Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

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