Sherwin B. Nuland Quotes
To become comfortable with uncertainty is one of the primary goals in the training of a physician.
For aging is an art. The years between its first intimations and the time of the ultimate letting go of all earthly things can-if the readiness and resolve are there-be the real harvest of our lives.
There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the point of paralysis by seeming or imagined portents.
Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.
The dignity we seek in dying is not to be found in our final weeks, days or moments but in the way we live and how we are seen by those people whose lives we affect.
The life sciences contain spiritual values which can never be explained by the materialistic attitude of present day science
In the community of living tissues, the uncontrolled mob of misfits that is cancer behaves like a gang of perpetually wilding adolescents. They are the juvenile delinquents of cellular society.
Though everyone may yearn for a tranquil death, the basic instinct to stay alive is a far more powerful force
I never had a conscious fear of death, but I did have a conscious fear of sickness. By the time I completed medical school, that fear was gone.
The growing professional disciplines of medical ethics and bioethics have had a profound impact on researchers, bedside doctors, associations of physicians, and government.
