It would be a rarity to find a physician writing a piece for a book like this; in fact many of you may be nonplussed or even annoyed at finding an interloper. Yet while the discipline-specific approaches may markedly differ, the underlying goal for all health practitioners remains the same-to alleviate suffering. I know it sounds terribly cliched, but what fascinates e is the process, the personal journey that care providers make (or refuse to make) in accepting the limits of their power and their response to failure.