Conquer Quote by Jack Kevorkian

“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

The doctors allow one to die, the charlatans kill.

— Jean de la Bruyere

By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.

— William Shakespeare

“Doctors possessed true power. They could salvage the unsalvageable; they could extend life and raise the level of comfort for those in their final…

— Glen Krisch

Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.

— Hippocrates

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

— Michael Lewis

“All the same I fear what happens when we expand the terrain of medical practice to include actively assisting people with speeding their death.…

— Atul Gawande

“...that the doctor being himself a mortal man, should be diligent and tender in relieving his suffering patients, inasmuch as he himself must one…

— Thomas Sydenham

“I have always been of the opinion that your successes are due not so much to your medical skill as your dogged determination. No…

— Elizabeth Peters

“Psychologically, nothing is darker or more menacing, or harder to accept, than the participation of physicians in mass murder. However technicized or commercial the…

— Robert Jay Lifton

“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

I think it's very interesting that [doctors] privilege the self that is saying, "I don't want to die," but want to discount the self…

— Katy Butler