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.
I didn't capture any notes beyond this point, mostly because it wasn't a section of grand wisdom or pithy quotes, only a man dying slowly and examining his life as it had now become. As depressing as this sounds, it was something I couldn't put down.
