Attention Quote by Luciana Berger

Being cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive.

— Aldous Huxley

“True care is proactive, not reactive. Not everyone struggling can find the strength to ask for help. Sometimes, it’s up to you, the helper,…

— Carson Anekeya

“Our society has tried to make death invisible, thinking that if we ignore it long enough it will go away. Often we as family…

— Megory Anderson

In my view, the lost art of listening and ignoring the patient as a human being is a quintessential failure of our health care.

— Bernard Lown

Perhaps it's only when people are dead that we can safely show how much we cared about them. We know that it's too late…

— Anonymous

Most medical personnel remain largely unfamiliar with non-medical treatments, and tend to dismiss them without knowing about what they're dismissing. This is a great…

— Andrew Saul

Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them.

— Marcia Angell

There is survival behavior, and doctors need to learn from patients who do not die when they are supposed to, instead of saying, 'You're…

— Bernie Siegel

There's such a void in the medical system. When my husband was sick, it became very apparent to me that the nurses were doing…

— Donna Karan

You can care very much about someone without being capable of becoming their primary caregiver in the event of their parents' untimely death.

— Mallory Ortberg

Nothing does so much to help those who suffer as to know that somebody cares.

— J.R. Miller

“This leaves us with the urgent question: How can we be or become a caring community, a community of people not trying to cover…

— Henri J.M. Nouwen