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

Arriving at an acceptance of one's mortality is a process, not an epiphany.

You can't make a recipe for something as complicated as surgery. Instead, you can make a recipe for how to have a team that's prepared for the unexpected.

No travel ban or quarantine will seal a country completely. Even if travel could be reduced by eighty per cent-itself a feat-models predict that new transmissions would be delayed only a few weeks. Worse, it would only drive an increase in the number of cases at the source. Health-care workers who have fallen ill would not be able to get out for treatment, and the international health personnel needed to quell the outbreak would no longer be able to go in.

People who reach certain levels of frailty, more important than getting their mammogram, more important than getting their blood pressure tweaked, they're at high risk of falling. If they fall and break their hip, they not only die sooner, they die miserably.

We yearn for frictionless, technological solutions. But people talking to people is still the way norms and standards change.

The definition of what it means to be dying has changed radically. We are able to extend people's lives considerably, including sometimes, good days.