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Why did you do that? well, certainly not for the glamour or prestige. so in medicine, there's a great hierarchy, and you have your brain surgeons and your heart surgeons at the top. and palliative care doctors are definitely one of those specialities that are low status. we're not rock stars. we're the support act that no—one wants to be and no—one wants our autograph. but i, i believed that... ..what i observed as a young doctor was that dying, in a way, is a more extreme version of what we all go through in our lives. we go through losses of one kind or another, of our health, of the peo...

Sometimes didn't have a voice. they were too frail physically to be able to speak, to ask for help. and i naturally gravitated towards those very vulnerable patients. and far from feeling as though there wasn't anything i could do in this environment, ifelt the opposite. i felt i want to advocate, i want to use my skills for these particular patients, because it's not right that certain patients are kind of cast onto the scrapheap. you took a choice that most doctors do not make. you took a choice not to turn away from death, but to actually turn toward death and to focus yourself, give yourse...

Who were dying almost literally sometimes didn't have a voice. they were too frail physically to be able to speak, to ask for help. and i naturally gravitated towards those very vulnerable patients. and far from feeling as though there wasn't anything i could do in this environment, ifelt the opposite. i felt i want to advocate, i want to use my skills for these particular patients, because it's not right that certain patients are kind of cast onto the scrapheap. you took a choice that most doctors do not make. you took a choice not to turn away from death, but to actually turn toward death an...

Hierarchy, and you have your brain surgeons and your heart surgeons at the top. and palliative care doctors are definitely one of those specialities that are low status. we're not rock stars. we're the support act that no—one wants to be and no—one wants our autograph. but i, i believed that... ..what i observed as a young doctor was that dying, in a way, is a more extreme version of what we all go through in our lives. we go through losses of one kind or another, of our health, of the people we love, of our resilience, our youth. and ultimately, that ends up with the final loss. we are mo...

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