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" I have been following the attempt to initiate or revamp federal involvement in the health of Americans since it was a major topic for my high school debating team in 1947. "
Sherwin B. Nuland
School
Health
High
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" I have not seen much dignity in the process by which we die. The quest to achieve true dignity fails when our bodies fail. "
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" 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 depressed or what we now recognize as schizophrenia, he was certain that this kind of illness had to come from evil spirits getting into the body. "
Sherwin B. Nuland
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Body
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" By the time of my ninth birthday, I had become a bit of a socialist, as I am said by conservative colleagues to be to this day. I went on within the next few years to volunteer as an envelope stuffer for the American Labor Party, and my political thinking has not shifted measurably since that time. "
Sherwin B. Nuland
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Time
Day
" Where nothing in a person's earlier years lends itself to an old age devoted to continuing intellectual and physical pursuits, a late-life interest in Tolstoy or even crossword puzzles is unlikely to appear, no matter the urging by well-intentioned social workers or people like me who write books about it. "
Sherwin B. Nuland
People
Age
Intellectual
" 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
Death
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Work
" 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
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Death
Time
" 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 anything divine, I don't mean anything supernatural - certainly not coming from this skeptic. "
Sherwin B. Nuland
You
World
Human Spirit
" 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
Meaning
Survival
Great
" 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
Long
Satisfaction
Behavior
" 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
Good
Think
People
" 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
Bad
Use
Word
" At times, morality can be dismissed as a matter of personal conscience, no matter how widespread its acceptance. Ethics, on the other hand, arises from societal or group commitments to principia of behavior. "
Sherwin B. Nuland
Group
Acceptance
Behavior
" 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
Difference
Possible
Sometimes
" Death belongs to the dying and those who love them. "
Sherwin B. Nuland
Dying
Love
Them
" The dignity we seek in dying must be found in the dignity with which we have lived our lives. "
Sherwin B. Nuland
Lived
Dignity
Dying
" 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
Present
Nothing
Out
" 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
Doctor
Become
Worth It
" 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
Danger
Family
" 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
First
Healthcare
Priorities
" 'Death with dignity' is our society's expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant finality of life's last sputterings. But the fact is, death is not a confrontation. It is simply an event in the sequence of nature's ongoing rhythms. "
Sherwin B. Nuland
Death
Life
Nature
" 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
Loneliness
Old Age
Optimism
" Both individual fulfillment and the ecological balance of life on this planet are best served by dying when our inherent biology decrees that we do. "
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Our
Dying
Life
" Even putting aside the Judeo-Christian morality upon which the Constitution and our nation's culture are based, the notion of forced euthanasia would contradict the long-held body of medical ethics to which all American doctors must adhere. "
Sherwin B. Nuland
Ethics
Medical
Constitution
" To become comfortable with uncertainty is one of the primary goals in the training of a physician. "
Sherwin B. Nuland
Training
Physician
Goals
" 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
You
Work
" 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
Consistency
Study
Rules
" We have had a rewarding relationship, the belly and I. "
Sherwin B. Nuland
Belly
Had
Rewarding
" 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
Long
Training
Medical
" 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
Justice
Medical
Understanding
" 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
Details
Best
Death