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ABC: When Breath Becomes Air

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The Moral Mission of Medicine

"I think really everyone who works in the healthcare industry should read this book," says one doctor. "The most important work that book does is the work of trying to synthesize the moral mission of medicine with a very real under, you know, non-cemptile understanding of the burden we are," adds another physician. The author also talks about how grand illnesses are supposed to be clarifying.

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