Sophia Burhart’s Reviews > Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End > Status Update

“The problem with medicine and the institutions it has spawned for the care of the sick and the old is not that they have had an incorrect view of what makes life significant […]The problem is that medicine’s focus is narrow. Medical professionals concentrate on repair of health, not sustenance of the soul. Yet- we have decided that they should be the ones who largely define how we live in our waning days.”