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Reflections on Brain Death, Hope, and the Limits of Certainty

Reflections on Brain Death, Hope, and the Limits of Certainty

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Physicians can define brain death. Legislatures can codify brain death. Courts can adjudicate brain death. None of them can fully explain life. The greatest physicians I have known understood that distinction. They recognized that wisdom begins where certainty ends.

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