I appreciate the candor and the analysis, but I think it's missing the forest for the trees. Medical providers care about people, and indeed are responsible fo

I appreciate the candor and the analysis, but I think it's missing the forest for the trees. Medical providers care about people, and indeed are responsible for the health of their patients. Some of those patients turn around and bite them. Others die - some die at your hands. Providers, especially doctors, take responsibility for that, emotionally and otherwise. No person and no system of support can be designed to completely avoid that. There is no religion or personal discipline that will erase the emotional and moral cost of hurting people you're trying to help. Some say their lost patients help them do better for their present patients. It's a bit like Lincoln saying at Gettysburg that these young boys did not die in vain - while knowing many were avoidable. Medicine may be a business, and it may even be a calling. But just realize that people doing medicine lose their innocence, in ineffable and unsharable ways, and try to respect that.