51 Quotes About Medical-profession


  • Author Paul Kalanithi
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    The physician's duty is not to stave off death or return patients to their old lives, but to take into our arms a patient and family whose lives have disintegrated and work until they can stand back up and face, and make sense of, their own existence.

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  • Author Paul Kalanithi
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    She had done what I had challenged myself to do as a doctor years earlier: accepted mortal responsibility for my soul and returned me to a point where I could return to myself.

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  • Author Paul Kalanithi
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    Detailed statistics are for research halls, not hospital rooms...It is important to be accurate, but you must always leave some room for hope.

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  • Author Marcia Angell
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    Why should anyone - the state, the medical profession, or anyone else - presume to tell someone else how much suffering they must endure as their life is ending?

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  • Author Florence Nightingale
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    The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.

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