Death Quote by Atul Gawande

“In other words, our decision making in medicine has failed so spectacularly that we have reached the point of actively inflicting harm on patients…

— Atul Gawande

“What is it about our human nature that we feel the need to defend the choices we’ve made when it comes to our medical…

— Suzanne Somers

“It seems that part of the moral constitution of a doctor is a commitment not to intend the death of a patient, and to…

— David Jeffrey

“doctors, for years, had opted for a treatment that systematically killed patients”

— Michael Lewis

Medicine is not about conquering diseases and death, but about the alleviation of suffering, minimising harm, smoothing the painful journey of man to the…

— Petr Skrabanek

“We, who should know better, reinforce every patient's desire to hide from the reality of his own mortality.”

— Michael J. Collins

“It is an old complaint about the practice of medicine that it inures you to the idea of death. But when medicine inures you…

— Siddartha Mukherjee

“Our responsibility, in medicine, is to deal with human beings as they are. People die only once.”

— Atul Gawande

“In other words, people who had substantive discussions with their doctor about their end-of-life preferences were far more likely to die at peace and…

— Atul Gawande

“In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients’ “ease” but at the same time they do…

— Jack Kevorkian

“Medicine no doubt, has helped us a lot to cure so many diseases, but death still remains an incurable one!”

— Mehek Bassi

“Everything I thought I understood about disease research, drug development, and the delivery of clinical care has been turned on its head. This isn’t…

— Mary Dimmock