Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: Extraordinary Journeys into the Human Brain

by Allan H. Ropper

there is no right or wrong road. There is only the road you choose. And although many may have gone down that road before, it will always seem uncharted and untrodden to the newly diagnosed person.

George reminds me often that our role is to give Sophie balloons, not anchors.

We can and do make mistakes, but in theory someone is there to catch and correct them. In practice, the system of checks and balances can fail at every level, and a low probability event, a succession of unlikely failures, can be set into motion.