Brett Cichocki

“The physician’s duty is not to stave off death or return patients to their old lives, but to take into our arms a patient and family whose lives have disintegrated and work until they can stand back up and face, and make sense of, their own existence.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
― François Rabelais

“Doctors, it turns out, need hope, too.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska