“Our bodies break down, sometimes when we're ninety, sometimes before we're even boring, but it always happens and there's never any dignity in it. I don't care if you can walk, see, wipe your own ass. It's always ugly. Always. You can live with dignity, we can't die with it.”Tagged: Dying, Death, dignity
“I take risks, sometimes patients die. But not taking risks causes more patients to die, so I guess my biggest problem is I've been cursed with the ability to do the math.”Tagged: Patients, Dying, Medicine, Taking Risks
“If you're dying, suddenly everybody loves you.”Tagged: Death, Dying, Compassion, The Human Condition