Sherwin B. Nuland Quotes

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• 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 our…
• The life sciences contain spiritual values which can never be explained by the materialistic attitude of present day science
• Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.
• The belief in the probability of death with dignity is our, and society’s, attempt to deal with the reality of what is all too frequently…
• The greatest dignity to be found in death is the dignity of the life that preceded it. This is a form of hope that we…
• If we cannot heal in one way, we must learn to heal in another.
• Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost.
• I have not often seen much dignity in the process by which we die.
• 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 the…
• To become comfortable with uncertainty is one of the primary goals in the training of a physician.
• I have not seen much dignity in the process by which we die. The quest to achieve true dignity fails when our bodies fail.
• The final disease that nature inflicts on us will determine the atmosphere in which we take our leave of life, but our own choices should…
• The dignity we seek in dying must be found in the dignity with which we have lived our lives.
• I never had a conscious fear of death, but I did have a conscious fear of sickness. By the time I completed medical school, that…
• We have had a rewarding relationship, the belly and I.
• Both individual fulfillment and the ecological balance of life on this planet are best served by dying when our inherent biology decrees that we do.
• Every hope of successive generations of scholars that order might be constructed from the chaotic mess of medical nomenclature has been frustrated. Even diseases recognized…
• Only the emerging specialty of psychoanalysis seemed to understand that mental maladies are not fully analogous to physical disease. They resist classification, and might better…
• Once the notion of depression had begun to dominate the diagnostic armamentarium, it became but a matter of time before patients with relatively mild disorders…
• There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the point…

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