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“The wisdom of that moment of pure emotion resonates with me still: that the dearest and most enduring moments of our lives are sometimes the quietest ones.”

Life Wisdom Emotion

Author:Christine Montross

“Visions and voices and fear and despair cannot be captured by CT scan or measured in the amplitude of EKG waves. Try as we might, we simply cannot predict which of our patients will kill themselves, which will murder their children, and which will leave the hospital healed, never to return.”

Fear Despair Psychiatry

Book:Falling Into the Fire: A Psychiatrist's Encounters with the Mind in Crisis

Source: Falling Into the Fire: A Psychiatrist's Encounters with the Mind in Crisis

“The midpoint in medicine between excessive emotional involvement with patients and a complete lack of empathy is not a simple one to locate.”

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Book:Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab

Source: Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab

“And so, just as the humanity of our cadavers asserts itself in nail polish and tattoos, the inverse of humanity emerges in the body's utter lack of response to profound wounds.”

Motivation Education Learning Medicine Doctor Medical School Cadaver

Book:Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab

Source: Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab

“Standing on the edge with my patients — abiding with them — means that I must harbor a true awareness that I, too, could lose my child through the play of circumstance over which I have no control. I could lose my home, my financial security, my safety. I could lose my mind. Any of us could.”

Loss Awareness Security Parents Child Psychiatry

Book:Falling Into the Fire: A Psychiatrist's Encounters with the Mind in Crisis

Source: Falling Into the Fire: A Psychiatrist's Encounters with the Mind in Crisis

“Thus far we have been able to protect [our children] from the deep and enduring traumas that scar the minds and selves of so many of the patients I see. How — how?—can I make it always so?”

Children Parenting Trauma Protection Parents Scars

Book:Falling Into the Fire: A Psychiatrist's Encounters with the Mind in Crisis

Source: Falling Into the Fire: A Psychiatrist's Encounters with the Mind in Crisis

“During my first semester of medical school, I cannot know how the emotional difficulty of the actions we perform on our cadavers will help us prepare for the agonizing moments we will observe in the lives of the living.”

Science Medicine Mortality Nonfiction Anatomy Eye Opening Medical School Memior

Author:Christine Montross

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