False hope can lead to intemperate choices and flawed decision making. True hope takes into account the real threats that exist and seeks to navigate the best path around them.

False hope can lead to intemperate choices and flawed decision making. True hope takes into account the real threats that exist and seeks to navigate the best path around them.

Hope, true hope, has proved as important as any medication I might prescribe or any procedure I might perform.

Hope is the elevating feeling we experience when we see - in the mind's eye - a path to a better future.

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.

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