The problem with medicine and the institutions it has spawn… - Atul Gawande

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The problem with medicine and the institutions it has spawned for the care of the sick and the old is not that they have had an incorrect view of what makes life significant. The problem is that they have had almost no view at all. 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.

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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.

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