I've become preoccupied lately with the education of young doctors. Doctors must be better equipped than lawyers to deal with death and diseases. Nature fails us all in the end; doctors cope with the consequences.

Lawyers also deal with life transforming, and, sometimes, life ending, situations. We paper over these rough places with happy talk about justice. A patient facing a horrible cancer diagnosis wants a miracle. Few patients get them. Doctors counsel about what's possible in the unforgiving world of cause and effect.