“The pressure remains all in one direction, toward doing more, because the only mistake clinicians seem to fear, is doing too little. Most have no appreciation that equally terrible mistakes are possible in the other direction—that doing too much could be no less devastating to a person’s life. ”

p220, '7 Hard Conversations ' , 'Being Mortal', Profile Books, ISBN 978-1846685828 ― Atul Gawande

— Being Mortal by Atul Gawande (Wellcome Collection) (Page 220)