Coaching Done Well May Be The Most

The Possibilities And Probabilities Are All We Have To Work With In Medicine, Though. What We Are Drawn To In This Imperfect Science, What We In Fact Covet In Our Way, Is The Alterable Moment-the Fragile But Crystalline Opportunity For One's Know-how, Ability, Or Just Gut Instinct To Change The Course Of Another's Life For The Better.

When We, Doctors, Ask Patients What Their Priorities Are If Time Is Short, What We Do Is We Use What Is Available To Us - Whether It's Geriatric Care Or Palliative Care Or Hospice Care - To Make Sure They're Living The Kind Of Life That They Want To Live.

Practice Is Funny That Way. For Days And Days, You Make Out Only The Fragments Of What To Do. And Then One Day You've Got The Thing Whole. Conscious Learning Becomes Unconscious Knowledge, And You Cannot Say Precisely How.

Our Reluctance To Honestly Examine The Experience Of Aging And Dying Has Increased The Harm We Inflict On People And Denied Them The Basic Comforts They Most Need.

People Who Reach Certain Levels Of Frailty, More Important Than Getting Their Mammogram, More Important Than Getting Their Blood Pressure Tweaked, They're At High Risk Of Falling. If They Fall And Break Their Hip, They Not Only Die Sooner, They Die Miserably.