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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.
~ Sherwin B. Nuland
By The Time
Completed
Conscious
Death
Did
Fear
Gone
Had
Medical
Medical School
Never
School
Sickness
Time
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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
Because
Becomes
Being
Cycle
Death
Each
Good
Had
Hope
I Think
Inevitability
Influence
Life
Our
Part
People
Recognize
Renewed
Some
Species
Then
Think
Whom
Will
World
You
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I was, in the 1960s, in a marriage. To use the word 'bad' would be perhaps the understatement of the year. It was dreadful.
~ Sherwin B. Nuland
1960s
Bad
Dreadful
Marriage
Perhaps
Understatement
Use
Word
Would
Would-Be
Year
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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
Disease
Know
None
Operation
Operations
Them
Work
Works
You
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It's unnatural to believe death usually has a beauty and a concordance and is usually a coming together of your life's work. It leads to frustration for the patient. And it leaves grieving families convinced they did something wrong.
~ Sherwin B. Nuland
Beauty
Believe
Coming
Convinced
Death
Did
Families
Frustration
Grieving
Leads
Leaves
Life
Patient
Something
Together
Unnatural
Work
Wrong
Your
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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 or another doctor cures them. And has it really been worth it?
~ Sherwin B. Nuland
Another
Become
Been
Changed
Cure
Cures
Doctor
Elderly
Many
Over
Particularly
Patients
Process
Really
Seen
Them
Which
Who
Worth
Worth It
Years
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Long regarded as central to the contemporary understanding of medical ethics are four principles that must be satisfied in order to fulfill the requirements of moral decision-making. These principles are autonomy, justice, beneficence, and non-maleficence.
~ Sherwin B. Nuland
Autonomy
Central
Contemporary
Decision-Making
Ethics
Four
Fulfill
Justice
Long
Medical
Moral
Must
Order
Principles
Regarded
Requirements
Satisfied
Understanding
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Medical judgment can be taught - laboriously, in long periods of training - but it cannot be neatly handed over as the occasion demands it. It is the irreplaceable and untransferable contribution that the healer makes to the suffering individual who would be healed.
~ Sherwin B. Nuland
Cannot
Contribution
Demands
Handed
Healed
Healer
Individual
Irreplaceable
Judgment
Long
Long Periods
Makes
Medical
Neatly
Occasion
Over
Periods
Suffering
Taught
Training
Who
Would
Would-Be
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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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