This is a passage I have returned to many many times in the past years.
"It is one of Nature's great insults that she should prefer to put ALL her eggs in the basket of a defenseless, incompetent neonate rather than in the tried and tested custody of our own superb minds. But as our neurofibrils begin to tangle, and that neonate walks to a wisdom that eludes us, we are forced to give Nature credit for her daring ideas. Of course, Nature, in her careless way, can get it wrong: people often die in the wrong order."
"Whenever you find yourself thinking 'it is better for him not to know', suspect you mean 'it is easier for me not to tell'."
"...giving a piece of yourself, some real sympathy, is worth more than allthe drugs in your pharmacopoeia to patients who are frightened, bereaved or weary of life."
~ Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine
"It is one of Nature's great insults that she should prefer to put ALL her eggs in the basket of a defenseless, incompetent neonate rather than in the tried and tested custody of our own superb minds. But as our neurofibrils begin to tangle, and that neonate walks to a wisdom that eludes us, we are forced to give Nature credit for her daring ideas. Of course, Nature, in her careless way, can get it wrong: people often die in the wrong order."
"Whenever you find yourself thinking 'it is better for him not to know', suspect you mean 'it is easier for me not to tell'."
"...giving a piece of yourself, some real sympathy, is worth more than allthe drugs in your pharmacopoeia to patients who are frightened, bereaved or weary of life."
~ Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine
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