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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 44 quotes by Sherwin B. Nuland Sherwin Bernard Nuland (born Shepsel Ber Nudelman; December 8, 1930 – March 3, 2014) was an American surgeon and writer who taught bioethics, history of medicine, and medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine, and occasionally bioethics and history of medicine at Yale College. His 1994 book How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter was a New York Times Best Seller and won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, as well as being a... Read full biography of Sherwin B. Nuland → ← Ctrl 1 2 3 4 Ctrl → Death belongs to the dying and those who love them. 0 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. 0 The dignity we seek in dying must be found in the dignity with which we have lived our lives. 0 At times, morality can be dismissed as a matter of personal conscience, no matter how widespread its acceptance. Ethics, on the other hand, arises... → 0 Do you know what the world will be saved by? I'll tell you. It'll be saved by the human spirit. And by the human spirit, I don't mean... → 0 Every hope of successive generations of scholars that order might be constructed from the chaotic mess of medical nomenclature has been frustrated.... → 0 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... → 0 I've seen so many patients, particularly elderly patients, over the years who become debilitated and changed by the process by which I cure them... → 0 Not death but disease is the real enemy; disease, the malign force that requires confrontation. Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting... → 0 The Scientific Revolution, that remarkable transformation of European thought that occurred between approximately 1550 and 1700, brought with it an... → 0 Though moral axioms to guide the conduct of the practitioner have existed since the beginnings of the profession of healing, Western doctors are most... → 0 Where nothing in a person's earlier years lends itself to an old age devoted to continuing intellectual and physical pursuits, a late-life... → 0 You know, ever since man had any notion that some of his other people, his colleagues, could be different, could be strange, could be severely... → 0 ← Ctrl 1 2 3 4 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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