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“It was a relief for someone to explain what was wrong, what had happened. No one else, none of those doctors in their white…

— Catherine Lacey

“The problem was that there was no treatment. No cure. There was nothing that...any medical professional could do. If I'd been fully human, I…

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

“All pain seemed to come with lots of blood, and lots of mental anguish, too. I already knew about that. Maybe that was the…

— V.C. Andrews

“We hung our heads, ashamed. It was, I suspected, not the first time that a patient had consoled a doctor about the ineffectuality of…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“Now, even if he and Dr B made their decision, D didn't know if he had the rigour to feed the cyanide to the…

— Thomas Keneally

“before they reached the clinic. The doctor told them that though”

— Grace Fisher

“I felt a pang of guilt at these words. I knew that it would probably be a long time before he got to go…

— K. Martin Beckner

“What had not changed, though, was the heroic spirit of responsibility amid blood and failure. This struck me as the true image of a…

— Paul Kalanithi

“When the doctors came in a little while later saying they thought they knew my diagnosis, I was afraid to know.”

— Sarah Todd Hammer

“I nodded. Everyone at the hospital wanted to think that their case was special, and if you were a good nurse, you helped them…

— Cassie Alexander

“The doctor was not, he thought, really sure that anyone else existed, and wanted to prove they did by helping them.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“He had written it down at last, but it made no difference. The therapy had not worked.”

— George Orwell