“We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.” YearsEndsSufferingLanguageLosesAbilityTeachStudentsCapacityThirdsMedicinePatientMedical Author:Abraham Verghese
“The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to the offender than the physician to the patient when he prescribes harsh remedies.” WritingEndsEnemyPatientVicesHonestlySatireAmendmentsRemedyPhysiciansHarshCorrectionsOffenders Book:The Poetical Works of John Dryden Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden
“Depression and hopelessness are not the only reasons terminally ill patients wish to end their lives. Many individuals see nothing undignified about choosing to end their lives at the time and manner of their choosing - and many view such a choice as the meaningful culmination of a good life.” EndsReasonChoicesIndividualWishViewsPatientIllMeaningfulGood LifeHopelessnessCulminationTerminally Ill Author:Jacob M. Appel
“Money spent on vegetative patients is money not spent on preventive care, such as flu shots and mammograms. Each night in an ICU bed for such patients is a night that another patient with a genuine prognosis for recovery is denied such high-end care. Every dollar exhausted on patients who will never wake up again is a dollar not devoted to finding a cure for cancer.” EndsCareNightBedFindingsShotsWake UpDollarsPatientCancerGenuineRecoveryCuresDeniedDevotedExhaustedFluMammogramsPrognosisPreventive Care Author:Jacob M. Appel