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When death is imminent and dying patients find their suffering unbearable, then the physician's role should shift from healing to relieving suffering in accord…

— Marcia Angell

I might have been just as happy to have been a practicing primary-care doctor. But as a medical student, I had interacted with patients…

— James Rothman

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

Whoever would write books? It's suffering as well as greatly satisfying. And certainly there's suffering in the sense that you don't know for a…

— Alice Mattison

I am convinced, the longer I live, that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly…

— Mary Todd Lincoln

I'm not a psychiatrist. I'm not treating patients.

— John Malkovich

People and organizations other than doctors increasingly are assuming power to decide which medications to prescribe or procedures to undertake. More and more, decisions…

— Bob Barr

I am not aware, however, that patients suffering from traumatic neurosis are much occupied in their waking lives with memories of their accident. Perhaps…

— Sigmund Freud

Not a few patients, however, suffering from certain forms of mental disorder, regain a high degree of insight into their mental condition in what…

— Clifford Whittingham Beers

Time was when medicine could do very little for critically ill or dying patients. Now it can do too much. Where to draw the…

— Lisa Belkin

Lots of my dying patients say they grow in bounds and leaps, and finish all the unfinished business. But assisting a suicide is cheating…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Having been an oncologist and having cared for scores, if not hundreds, of dying patients, when you don't have a treatment that can shrink…

— Ezekiel Emanuel