Summary of Jillian Horton's We Are All Perfectly Fine

By IRB Media

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#1 I am a general internist, the type of doctor who treats people with fake medical problems. I work in an inner-city hospital in Canada, and I look after patients who are sick enough to be in the hospital. Many are dying.

#2 I talk about death a lot because I’m surrounded by it. I’ve signed more death certificates than cheques, and I pay for everything by cheque. Doctors have a delusional relationship with death. We trick ourselves into the professional assumption that death is reasonable.

#3 I love being a doctor. There is something so intimate and fateful between me and medicine. When I sit down at a bedside with a person in pain, there is a moment of deep resonance and grace. But relationships have undertones like instruments.

#4 The narrow line on the pie graph that doctor drew for my parents showed that my sister had a 50/50 chance of survival. Life with my sister was a trial, because there was no end in sight. She was profoundly disabled in unique ways.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 10, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822537873

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