Medicine as we know it is as much a descendent of the stories and myths we have grown up with, as any other industry. The body is not a neutral state. Doctors are not always monsters. Patients are not always victims. But the system in which they encounter each other is deeply broken. The task is not to demonize or assign blame, but to find ways of navigating our own bodies through the cycles of life and death with a clear eye and an awareness of where legend eats into experience and how stories can frame fact in costumes of objective truth. And this awareness might just help us carve a path towards, what comes next.