The battle of being mortal is the battle to maintain the integrity of one's life.

Human interaction is the key force in overcoming resistance and speeding change.

If we took away the ability to put defibrillators in people in their last years, people would be shouting in the streets.

In one study, old people assigned to a geriatrics team stayed independent for far longer, and were admitted to the hospital less.

Man is fallible, but maybe men are less so.

In psychology, there's something called the broken-leg problem. A statistical formula may be highly successful in predicting whether or not a person will go to a movie in the next week. But someone who knows that this person is laid up with a broken leg will beat the formula. No formula can take into account the infinite range of such exceptional events.

Are doctors who make mistakes villains? No, because then we all are.