Two major take-aways from this lovely book: 1) when complicated patients have good outcomes, there's always lots of luck involved. 2) as you work to become skilled at difficult and delicate aspects of medicine, you will make mistakes and harm some patients along the way. Very refreshing and honest.

"I withdrew into myself and let the long months go by, spending my time reading....The real world dissolved and I was free to drift in fantasy, living a thousand lives, each one more powerful, more accessible, and more real than my own."