Palliative Medicine Quotes

#1. I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a general supervisory authority, raises serious constitutional questions.

Elena Kagan

#2. I am interested in the way advances in medicine and palliative care mean more people now have the opportunity to plan their own deaths, and also plan for those who are left behind. What does that do to the grieving process?

Laura Wade

#3. Medicine is only palliative. For behind disease lies the cause and this cause NO DRUG can reach.

Silas Weir Mitchell

#4. I guess that's what art is: Turning something painful into something people can relate to.

Maria Semple

#5. In the latter months of his own long sickness the Master Herbal had taught him much of the healer's lore, and the first lesson and the last of all that lore was this: Heal the wound and cure the illness, but let the dying spirit go.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#6. Reality has changed, and we changed with it. However, I never changed sides. I have always been on the side of justice, democracy and social equality.

Dilma Rousseff

#7. The best way to convey meaning is to tell people what the information means to you yourself, he said. And he gave me three words to use to do that. "I am worried," I told Douglass.

Atul Gawande

#8. An act against the Constitution is void; an act against natural equity is void.

James Otis

#9. The path to mastery involves being a white-belter till it becomes black from use.

Malti Bhojwani