"A hospital may spend several million dollars separating……" — Alice Dreger
"A hospital may spend several million dollars separating a pair of conjoined twins even though that separation is likely to leave them worse off."
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22 Quotes by Alice Dreger
Alice Dreger has 22 quotes on this site.
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Doctors are human animals. They want to be loved, they are tribal, they instinctually favor stories over scientific evidence, they…
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After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went…
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Doctors are human animals. They want to be loved, they are tribal, they instinctually favor stories over scientific evidence, they…
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Using medicine in the service of cosmesis is generally bad for patients, bad for doctors, and bad for democracy. The…
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After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went…
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As a kid, I did some running but especially loved biking and swimming. I grew up on Long Island, and…
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Want to be a well-paid bioethicist, with one, two, or even three university appointments? Just get yourself a two-piece navy…
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I actually completely suck at being a bioethicist. What I do is history of medicine and patient advocacy. Patient advocacy…
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My mother has told so many times the unbelievable story of how, as a toddler, I would demand raw onions…
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I could make a martyrly claim to having been the victim of childhood enslavement when I report that I started…
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When all is said and done, science actually takes hard work and a willingness to sometimes find out that your…
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Having a child is not like taking a spouse; there is no mutual agreement entered into. It is up the…
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More Conjoined Quotes
This quote is filed under Conjoined Quotes,
one of 18 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The monogram of our national initials, which is the symbol for our monetary unit, the dollar, is almost as frequently…
— Henry R. Towne
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Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices…
— James Burnham
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Those who have hardened, have a covenant with Death. Those who remain gentle are conjoined with Life.
— Laozi
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Arrogance is the conjoined twin of ignorance.
— Andy Hargreaves
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No writer can be fully convicted of imitation except there is a concurrence of more resemblance than can be imagined…
— Samuel Johnson
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And here Dante describes an evidently spherical world... "The lamp of the world [the sun] rises to mortals through different…
— Dante Alighieri
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Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I wanted her to see that the only life worth living is a life full of love; that loss is…
— Pam Houston
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They rode like men invested with a purpose whose origins were antecedent to them, like blood legatees of an order…
— Cormac McCarthy
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My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go…
— Jandy Nelson
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Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and…
— Jandy Nelson
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Most of us have love in our lives. Most of us love other people are are ourselves loved by others.…
— Augusten Burroughs
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