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Nosology (from the Greek 'nosos,' meaning 'disease,' and 'logos,' referring to 'study') is not a sport for the timid, and certainly not for those so scrupulous about rules and order that they demand consistency in all things.
~ Sherwin B. Nuland
About
All Things
Certainly
Consistency
Demand
Disease
Greek
Logos
Meaning
Order
Referring
Rules
Sport
Study
Things
Those
Timid
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Not death but disease is the real enemy; disease, the malign force that requires confrontation. Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost.
~ Sherwin B. Nuland
Battle
Been
Confrontation
Death
Disease
Enemy
Exhausting
Force
Has-Been
Lost
Malign
Real
Real Enemy
Requires
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Of all the named structures within the abdomen and the chest, those associated with reproduction retained the mysteries of their willful behavior long after others had been solved to the satisfaction of physicians and philosophers.
~ Sherwin B. Nuland
After
Associated
Been
Behavior
Chest
Had
Long
Mysteries
Named
Others
Philosophers
Physicians
Reproduction
Satisfaction
Solved
Structures
Those
Within
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Once the notion of depression had begun to dominate the diagnostic armamentarium, it became but a matter of time before patients with relatively mild disorders of mood or anxiety would be entered into it.
~ Sherwin B. Nuland
Anxiety
Became
Before
Begun
Depression
Disorders
Dominate
Entered
Had
Matter
Mild
Mood
Notion
Once
Patients
Relatively
Time
Would
Would-Be
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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
Aspects
Best
Deal
Death
Details
Discussion
Dying
Fear
Frank
Frighten
Knowing
Most
Only
Ourselves
Rid
Those
Truth
Us
Very
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Only the emerging specialty of psychoanalysis seemed to understand that mental maladies are not fully analogous to physical disease. They resist classification, and might better be known by their symptoms and the individualized sufferings of patients than by assigned names.
~ Sherwin B. Nuland
Assigned
Better
Classification
Disease
Emerging
Fully
Known
Mental
Might
Names
Only
Patients
Physical
Psychoanalysis
Resist
Seemed
Specialty
Sufferings
Symptoms
Than
Understand
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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
Become
Behind
Deaths
Give
Given
Left
Lives
Our
Our Lives
Part
Sense
Something
Them
Those
Who
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The dignity we seek in dying must be found in the dignity with which we have lived our lives.
~ Sherwin B. Nuland
Dignity
Dying
Found
Lived
Lives
Must
Our
Our Lives
Seek
Which
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The final disease that nature inflicts on us will determine the atmosphere in which we take our leave of life, but our own choices should be allowed, insofar as possible, to be the decisive factor in the manner of our going.
~ Sherwin B. Nuland
Allowed
Atmosphere
Choices
Decisive
Determine
Disease
Factor
Final
Going
Insofar
Leave
Life
Manner
Nature
Our
Own
Possible
Should
Take
Us
Which
Will
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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
Behind
Beyond
Dying
Good
Good Thing
Great
Happen
Leave
Lives
May
Meaning
Our
Our Lives
Point
Possibility
Survival
Thing
Those
Will
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The growing professional disciplines of medical ethics and bioethics have had a profound impact on researchers, bedside doctors, associations of physicians, and government.
~ Sherwin B. Nuland
Associations
Bedside
Disciplines
Doctors
Ethics
Government
Growing
Had
Impact
Medical
Physicians
Professional
Profound
Profound Impact
Researchers
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The Scientific Revolution, that remarkable transformation of European thought that occurred between approximately 1550 and 1700, brought with it an ascendancy of the experimental method and the refusal to believe any explanation of natural phenomena that could not be proven to the satisfaction of the empirical observer.
~ Sherwin B. Nuland
Any
Approximately
Believe
Between
Brought
Could
Empirical
European
Experimental
Explanation
Method
Natural
Natural Phenomena
Observer
Occurred
Phenomena
Proven
Refusal
Remarkable
Revolution
Satisfaction
Scientific
Thought
Transformation
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The writings and the recommendations of the earliest medical scientists and the new breed of clinicians between the mid-fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries were based on the supposition that sufficient study and experimentation would elucidate not only the origins of disease, but its treatment as well.
~ Sherwin B. Nuland
Based
Between
Breed
Centuries
Disease
Earliest
Early
Experimentation
Medical
New
Only
Origins
Recommendations
Scientists
Study
Sufficient
Treatment
Well
Were
Would
Writings
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There are resurrection themes in every society that has ever been studied, and it is because not just only do we fantasize about the possibility of resurrection and recovery, but it actually happens. And it happens a lot.
~ Sherwin B. Nuland
About
Actually
Because
Been
Ever
Every
Fantasize
Happens
Just
Lot
Only
Possibility
Recovery
Resurrection
Society
Studied
Themes
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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.
~ Sherwin B. Nuland
Alert
Allowing
Become
Being
Between
Danger
Difference
Imagined
Oneself
Only
Paralysis
Point
Possible
Seeming
Small
Sometimes
Sure
Terrified
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Though moral axioms to guide the conduct of the practitioner have existed since the beginnings of the profession of healing, Western doctors are most likely to view the Hippocratic Oath of approximately two-and-a-half millennia ago as the first codified set of statements to which they can look for guidance.
~ Sherwin B. Nuland
Approximately
Axiom
Beginnings
Conduct
Doctors
Existed
First
Guidance
Guide
Healing
Likely
Look
Millennia
Moral
Most
Oath
Profession
Set
Since
Statements
Though
View
Western
Which
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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
About
Bush
Coverage
Form
George
George W
George W. Bush
Grew
Health
His
Improved
Intention
Made
Noises
Nothing
Out
Present
President
President George W. Bush
Small
Some
Them
Though
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To become comfortable with uncertainty is one of the primary goals in the training of a physician.
~ Sherwin B. Nuland
Become
Comfortable
Goals
Physician
Primary
Training
Uncertainty
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Too many of the elderly do not have the family or the communal attachments necessary to feel valued; too many are widowed or otherwise alone; too many live in surroundings where they are essentially without the companionship necessary to stimulate a mind in danger of deteriorating.
~ Sherwin B. Nuland
Alone
Communal
Companionship
Danger
Elderly
Essentially
Family
Feel
Live
Many
Mind
Necessary
Otherwise
Stimulate
Surroundings
Too
Valued
Where
Without
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We have had a rewarding relationship, the belly and I.
~ Sherwin B. Nuland
Belly
Had
Relationship
Rewarding
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Sherwin B. Nuland
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BirthDate
08 December, 1930
DeathDate
03 March, 2014
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