On average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.

On average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.

Even when there is no longer hope for the body, there is always hope for the soul.

Hope gives us the courage to confront our circumstances and the capacity to surmount them.

To hope under the most extreme circumstances is an act of defiance that permits a person to live his life on his own terms. It is part of the human spirit to endure and give a miracle a chance to happen.

I had learned that every patient has the right to hope, despite long odds, and it was my role to help nurture that hope.

Help, then, is the ballast that keeps us steady, that recognizes where along the path are the dangers and pitfalls that can throw us off; hope tempers fear so we can recognize dangers and then bypass or endure them.