CURE Quote
One in five deaths in the United States occurs in a critical care bed—and when it becomes clear to the medical team that we cannot save a patient’s life, our thoughts and actions must turn from cure to comfort. It becomes time to focus not on what’s the matter with the patient, but what matters to the patient.
— Wes Ely, Every Deep-Drawn Breath: A Critical Care Doctor on Healing, Recovery, and Transforming Medicine in the ICU, 2021-
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Theory of Cures
Why do we have illness? Why do we need cures? Illness – like death and taxes, is unavoidable. We will all die, regardless of our wishes and plans. When we die, our doctor will write down the cause of death, … Continue reading
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