49 Quotes by Jacob M. Appel

Most people are far more concerned that they can control their own bodies than they are about petitioning Congress.

Much as constitutional guarantees of press freedom do little good for prospective publishers if they do not have access to paper or ink, the right to aid in dying is strikingly useless if nobody is willing to help.

If freedom means anything at all, it is the right to primacy in regard to sexuality, reproduction, medical care and death.

Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician’s relationship with his patients: I worry about how to extend their lives. This anxiety inevitably shortens my own.