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It’s not “preventive” medicine; it’s proactive medicine, and I believe it has the potential not only to change the lives of individuals but also to relieve vast amounts of suffering in our society as a whole.
Peter Attia MD • Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
began to realize that coming in such close contact with my own mortality had changed both nothing and everything.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
The problem with medicine and the institutions it has spawned for the care of the sick and the old is not that they have had an incorrect view of what makes life significant. The problem is that they have had almost no view at all. Medicine’s focus is narrow. Medical professionals concentrate on repair of health, not sustenance of the soul. Yet—and... See more
Atul Gawande • Being Mortal
I began reading literature again: Solzhenitsyn’s Cancer Ward, B. S. Johnson’s The Unfortunates, Tolstoy’s Ivan Ilyich, Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos, Woolf, Kafka, Montaigne, Frost, Greville, memoirs of cancer patients—anything by anyone who had ever written about mortality.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
Germs, Genes, & Civilization: How Epidemics Shaped Who We Are Today (FT Press Science)
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No system of thought can contain the fullness of human experience.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
A few conclusions become clear when we understand this: that our most cruel failure in how we treat the sick and the aged is the failure to recognize that they have priorities beyond merely being safe and living longer; that the chance to shape one’s story is essential to sustaining meaning in life; that we have the opportunity to refashion our ins... See more