Finding Purpose for a Good Life. But Also a Healthy One. [nytimes.com]

My favorite medical diagnosis is “failure to thrive.”

Not because patients are failing to thrive — that part makes me sad. But because of the diagnosis’s bold proposition: Humans, in their natural state, are meant to thrive.

My patient, however, was not in his natural state. Cancer had claimed nearly every organ in his body. He’d lost a quarter of his body mass. I worried his ribs would crack under the weight of my stethoscope.

[For more on this story by Dhruv Khullar, go to https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...ealthy-one.html?_r=0]