Encounter with the Shaman: The True Story of a Miraculous Healing Book

First grad school assignment. Check.

Overall, Dr. Groopman hits a point that I want to one day encompass as a provider. While my job of prescribing treatments is what I am going to school for, the idea of sitting at a bedside with nothing left to administer but a friendship morphs into the ultimate medication. At the end of the day, the right to surrender and welcome death belongs to the patient and my opinion as a provider is no longer of value. People more often than not, need acceptance more than advice. It's true that tumors don't always read the textbooks and it remains a comfort that no one is beyond the capacity to hope. I look forward to the day (dare I say- hope) when the miraculous is commonplace and the incurable becomes cured.