The writings and the recommendations of the earliest medical scientists and the new breed of clinicians between the mid-fifteenth and early seventeenth… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
The final disease that nature inflicts on us will determine the atmosphere in which we take our leave of life, but our… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Nosology (from the Greek 'nosos,' meaning 'disease,' and 'logos,' referring to 'study') is not a sport for the timid, and certainly not… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Only the emerging specialty of psychoanalysis seemed to understand that mental maladies are not fully analogous to physical disease. They resist classification,… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Being someone who had had a very difficult childhood, a very difficult adolescence - it had to do with not quite poverty,… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
If there's one operation for a disease, you know it works. If there are 15 operations, you know that none of them work. — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Not death but disease is the real enemy; disease, the malign force that requires confrontation. Death is the surcease that comes when… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
'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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost. — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
