One of the most important things for us when we're ill, especially when we are dying, is the compassion and empathy of our doctors. But how do physicians retain these human qualities with each patient when they are bombarded with mulitple losses and the weight of such influence over life and death? How do they avoid becoming jaded and cold, or falling into a perpetual state of numbness or paralysing emotion? Jordan Grumet does it by writing about his experiences as a doctor and as a person in his popular blog, In My Humble Opinion. He illuminates the experience of this most unusual profession and, for him, calling. He is honest about the losses that contributed to that calling, including the death of his own father at a very early age. Yes, doctors need to bring empathy to their patients, but Jordan will inspire you to have some empathy for your doctors!