Though moral axioms to guide the conduct of the practitioner have existed since the beginnings of the profession of healing, Western doctors are most likely to view the Hippocratic Oath of approximately two-and-a-half millennia ago as the first codified set… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
The Scientific Revolution, that remarkable transformation of European thought that occurred between approximately 1550 and 1700, brought with it an ascendancy of the experimental method and the refusal to believe any explanation of natural phenomena that could not be proven… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction. — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share
A realistic expectation also demands our acceptance that one's allotted time on earth must be limited to an allowance consistent with the continuity of… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share
There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share
By the time of my ninth birthday, I had become a bit of a socialist, as I am said by conservative colleagues to be… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share
'Death with dignity' is our society's expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant finality of… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share
“Leonardo, with his profound knowledge of art, commenced various undertakings, many of which he never completed, because it appeared to him that the hand… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share
Do you know what the world will be saved by? I'll tell you. It'll be saved by the human spirit. And by the human… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share
It's unnatural to believe death usually has a beauty and a concordance and is usually a coming together of your life's work. It leads… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share
Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost. — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share
There are resurrection themes in every society that has ever been studied, and it is because not just only do we fantasize about the… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share
Every hope of successive generations of scholars that order might be constructed from the chaotic mess of medical nomenclature has been frustrated. Even diseases… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share
The more personal you are willing to be and the more intimate you are willing to be about the details of your own life,… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share
“We die so that the world may continue to live. We have been given the miracle of life because trillions upon trillions of living… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share
For aging is an art. The years between its first intimations and the time of the ultimate letting go of all earthly things can-if… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share
Cancer cells are fixed at an age where they are still too young to have learned the rules of the society in which they… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share
