Brett Cichocki

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

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

“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

“Openness to human relationality does not mean revealing grand truths from the apse; it means meeting patients where they are, in the narthex or nave, and bringing them as far as you can.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air