To become comfortable with uncertainty is one of the primary goals in the training of a physician. Sherwin B. Nuland Read Quote
Whether wisely or not, one of the first priorities of the incoming Obama administration was to present a package of healthcare benefits, which, to no one’s surprise, produced an uproar in Congress and an assortment of polls declaring that the majority of Americans were opposed to it. Sherwin B. Nuland Read Quote
Though President George W. Bush made some small noises about his intention to present some form of improved health coverage, nothing grew out of them. Sherwin B. Nuland Read Quote
Only by a frank discussion of the very details of dying can we best deal with those aspects that frighten us the most. It is by knowing the truth… that we rid ourselves of that fear of the terra incognita of death. Sherwin B. Nuland Read Quote
Cancer cells are fixed at an age where they are still too young to have learned the rules of the society in which they live. As with so many immature individuals of all living kinds, everything they do is excessive and uncoordinated with the needs or constraints of their neighbors… they are reproductive but not productive. Sherwin B. Nuland Read Quote
I think when you think of death as being part of the life cycle and recognize that death is an inevitability for our species because the world has to be renewed with each death, then the hope becomes when it is renewed it will be renewed by people on whom I have had some influence for good. Sherwin B. Nuland Read Quote
The good thing that may yet happen during dying is not the possibility of survival when we’re beyond that point. The good thing that may yet happen is that our lives will have great meaning for those we leave behind. Sherwin B. Nuland Read Quote
Our deaths become a part of our lives in the sense that with our deaths we give something to those who are left behind, as we have given our lives to them. Sherwin B. Nuland Read Quote
If there’s one operation for a disease, you know it works. If there are 15 operations, you know that none of them work. Sherwin B. Nuland Read Quote
Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brain’s cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening – not to say healthy – old age. Sherwin B. Nuland Read Quote
