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On Christmas Eve of my first year as a doctor, I was at the bedside of a young boy who was dying from leukemia. Two weeks before, he’d been an active kid who loved to play. Now, he didn’t have the energy to lift his head off the mattress. No treatments had worked, and there were none left for me to try.