Floating Feathers: A Doctor's Harrowing Experience as a Patient Within Conventional Medicine — and an Impassioned Call for the Future of Care in America

by Ross I.S. Zbar

I never imagined that almost twenty years later, that same charity hospital would be responsible for saving my life.

I wholeheartedly believe we must always treat patients as we would our own families.

The corporatization of healthcare has resulted in the loss of morality.

The fact that I went to Harvard and Yale is now completely meaningless. I’m merely a patient labeled with a brain injury.

It is one thing to intellectually believe we should live each day as if it could be our last, but it is completely different to emotionally understand its significance.

This is true for everyone, that we rarely know of the personal trials people have faced. Not one living person escapes suffering; we must remember this dictum always. It is the Stoic process of accepting this fate, even loving it, that makes us stronger.