Atul Gawande Quotes

Medicine's Focus Is Narrow. Medical Professionals Concentrate On Repair Of Health, Not Sustenance Of The Soul. Yet - And This Is The Painful Paradox - We Have Decided That They Should Be The Ones Who Largely Define How We Live In Our Waning Days. For More Than Half A Century Now, We Have Treated The Trials Of Sickness, Aging, And Mortality As Medical Concerns. It's Been An Experiment In Social Engineering, Putting Our Fates In The Hands Of People Valued More For Their Technical Prowess Than For Their Understanding Of Human Needs.

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