Chris Whitty Quotes
Multi-morbidity is increasing: it is an issue the medical profession needs to address. Increasing specialisation only makes sense if we also maintain and celebrate generalist skills throughout our careers.
Chris Whitty
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My silver cord – the link between my body and my spirit – was extremely sensitive. It was what allowed me to sense dreamscapes at a distance. It could also snap me back into my skin.
Samantha Shannon
What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialized language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
Abraham Verghese
So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
Haniel Long
A hospital is no place to be sick.
Samuel Goldwyn
One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
Walter Pater
As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.
Jack Kevorkian
She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph. I don't know what she was, anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant. There was no pausing on the brink, no looking down, or looking back. I was gone, headlong, before I had sense to say a word to her.
Charles Dickens
Is this what real homelessness is like? Not just a particular set of roof and walls gone, but a sense of the death of companionship?
Alexander Masters
All serial killers want to win. They choose victims they can kill successfully.
Pat Brown
Jobs are for lazy people who don’t want to invest in themselves.
Damon Dash
Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.
Daniel Berrigan
Multi-morbidity is increasing: it is an issue the medical profession needs to address. Increasing specialisation only makes sense if we also maintain and celebrate generalist skills throughout our careers.
Chris Whitty
