Sublime

We’ve been wrong about what our job is in medicine. We think our job is to ensure health and survival. But really it is larger than that. It is to enable well-being. And well-being is about the reasons one wishes to be alive.

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Capacious

It’s not “preventive” medicine; it’s proactive medicine, and I believe it has the potential not only to change the lives of individuals but also to relieve vast amounts of suffering in our society as a whole.

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If to be human is to be limited, then the role of caring professions and institutions—from surgeons to nursing homes—ought to be aiding people in their struggle with those limits.

Hippocrates, the Greek physician who lived approximately 2,500 years ago, is sometimes referred to as the ‘father of modern medicine’; he is said to have gained some of his knowledge from the ancient Egyptian system of medicine. A substantial proportion of Hippocrates’ writings about his ideas on the subject of illnesses and their appropriate