Clarity When It’s Too Late What if you knew the greatest regret you’d suffer on your deathbed? Would you live your life differently? In 2019, a hospice nurse named Bronnie Ware published Top Five Regrets of the Dying , a qualitative analysis cataloging the biggest sources of remorse among her end-of-life patients. The number one regret was "I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me." Working in palliative care, I frequently meet patients...

We take it for granted now. Someone collapses, we dial 911, and within minutes trained professionals arrive with equipment, medications, and the expertise to stabilize a dying patient before they ever reach the hospital. It's so routine that we don't give it a second thought. But this system—the entire infrastructure of emergency medical services as we know it—didn't exist until the 1970s. And remarkably, the creation of our modern EMS system was largely inspired by a television show....

January is named for the two-faced Roman god, Janus. His distinguishing feature was simultaneously looking back in reflection and forward in anticipation (imagery which pre-dated the Julian calendar by over a century)–a good choice for the first month of the new year . New Year’s Resolutions have existed in various forms from the time of the Ancient Babylonians (c. 2000 BCE), who would commit to returning borrowed tools in the new year, through the middle ages, when knights would renew their...