Alleviate Quote by Christiaan Barnard

“To withdraw life-prolonging treatments when these are no longer of benefit to the patient is to recognise the limits of a doctor's power, allowing…

— David Jeffrey

The last thing you ever want to do is extend the period of frailty and disability and make people unhealthy for a longer time…

— S. Jay Olshansky

It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.

— Bill Vaughan

Without ducking responsibility, what's wrong with medicine today is that it is predicated on providing treatment, not on reducing suffering. Not on solving problems.

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Modern science & doctors can do a great deal to prolong life. The life span is lengthening, but that is merely postponing the day…

— Pacifiersucker

“Preventing a suicide is not necessarily a beneficent act if it forces the potential suicide to continue in a life of misery.”

— Gene Lester

Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are…

— Walter Kaufmann

Prevention is better than cure, says the doctor. But in life, it is better to be cured than to be prevented, so you can…

— Bakre Basit Babatunde

One should treat one's fate as one does one's health; enjoy it when it is good, be patient with it when it is poor,…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The purpose of a doctor or any human in general should not be to simply delay the death of the patient, but to increase…

— Patch Adams

“Harm reduction is often perceived as being inimical to the ultimate purpose of “curing” addiction—that is, of helping addicts transcend their habits and to…

— Gabor Maté

The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of…

— James Hollis