Atul Gawande, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes On An Imperfect Science Quotes
No matter what measures are taken, doctors will sometimes falter, and it isn't reasonable to ask that we achieve perfection. What is reasonable is to ask that we never cease to aim for it.
This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong.
If there is a credo in practical medicine, it is that the important thing is to be sensible.