Some of the commonest questions in medicine sound deceptively simple.“When is the baby due?” “How long have I got?”
People ask these questions as though there should be a clean answer. A date. A time. Something solid enough to write on a calendar.
Medicine, however, deals mostly in estimates.
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Whose life is it anyway?
Many times over my years in family practice, I sat with people as they navigated some of the most tender and difficult crossroads of their lives. A teenager facing an unplanned pregnancy, a cancer patient thinking about medical assistance in dying, the person wrestling with depression and suicidal thoughts—the question that kept surfacing was: Who’s life is it anyway?