Character building Quote by Kay Redfield Jamison

“The doctor’s words made me understand what happened to me was a dark, evil, and shameful secret, and by association I too was dark,…

— Alyssa Reyans

“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

“I guessed that he was one of those ambitious young physicians who more and more fill the profession, opportunists with a fashionable hoodlum image,…

— J.G. Ballard

“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

“life had been building potential, potential that would now go unrealized. I had planned to do so much, and I had come so close.…

— Paul Kalanithi

“Perhaps this is the solution to medicine’s midlife crisis, too: doctors focusing on their noble craft, their relationships with patients, the stuff over which…

— Sandeep Jauhar

“I often urge patients to project themselves into the future and to consider how they can live now so that five years hence they…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“You are the main character in the story of your life, but other people are the main characters of their own lives. And sometimes…

— Timothy Kurek

“But the story of leukemia--the story of cancer--isn't the story of doctors who struggle and survive, moving from institution to another. It is the…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“Stepping out of other people’s drama cycles was scary, weird, and difficult for me at first. I felt guilty for keeping the focus on…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Well,” he said, “the downside of having no barriers between doctors and patients was that everyone became a patient.” There”

— Jon Ronson

“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