Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights:#1 I am a general internist, the type of doctor who treats people with fake medical problems. I work in an inner-city hospital in Canada, and I look after patients who are sick enough to be in the hospital. Many are dying.#2 I talk about death a lot because I’m surrounded by it. I’ve signed more death certificates than cheques, and I pay for everything by cheque. Doctors have a delusional relationship with death. We trick ourselves into the professional assumption that death is reasonable.#3 I love being a doctor. There is something so intimate and fateful between me and medicine. When I sit down at a bedside with a person in pain, there is a moment of deep resonance and grace. But relationships have undertones like instruments.#4 The narrow line on the pie graph that doctor drew for my parents showed that my sister had a 50/50 chance of survival. Life with my sister was a trial, because there was no end in sight. She was profoundly disabled in unique ways.