Learning To Let Patients Die

摘要

Wearenevergoingtodie.Twenty-threeyearsoldandfresh out of medical school, these are words we had spent six years absorbing. Coupled with the immortality of youth, there was no stopping us. Modern medicine and the art of technology leave young medical students no doubt that everything that ails us can be cured. We learn a myriad of causes for every illness and just as many ways of treating it. No patients were going to die on our watch.