After Quote by Lance Loud

I've become more empathetic, and my capacity to understand and be patient - to give people a break - has enlarged over the years.

— Stephen Lang

We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the…

— Abraham Verghese

Hospice is such a tremendous thing. Patients seem to reach an inner peace.

— Harmon Killebrew

When I became ill, I started to experience what my patients had suffered under my care.

— Kent Brantly

“This was the tenth month of my "fellowship" in oncology - a two-year immersive medical program to train cancer specialists - and I felt…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

Once I started working with older people, I realized how much I enjoyed the intellectual challenge of taking care of patients who have multiple,…

— Anonymous

Hospice has brought such a light in my life. It is something I will be involved with until I need hospice myself.

— Torrey DeVitto

Learning from what I been through and dying for what I do..

— Trilla

I was an ICU nurse for eight years, so it was a long time spent in a pretty critical environment.

— Gabby Windey

I was destined to work with dying patients. I had no choice when I encountered my first AIDS patient. I felt called to travel…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.

— Anonymous

“I learned a lot about medicine in those years, but I learned more about human nature. I learned about bravery and resilience, about the…

— Elizabeth Berg