Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital
Eric Manheimer
Top 10 Best Quotes
“If one is intent on revenge, one should dig two graves. One for one’s victim and one for oneself.”
“But finally, as Montaigne said, it was useless to "worry about death, it will take care of itself. Worry about life, that needs management.”
“one is intent on revenge, one should dig two graves. One for one’s victim and one for oneself.”
“numbers and a bottom-line mentality that extols profit and wealth over any other human value, the risk is clear to everyone I work with. When health care is now measured by a “medical loss ratio,” and the percentage of spending on health care is considered a “loss,” then we”
“Why are so many people, with such a wide range of problems, sent to prison as the one-size-fits-all solution?”
“Where is it written that a good death is bearing gracious witness to the suffering caused by an errant cell that has exploded inside you? Isn’t this meeting other people’s expectations? Isn’t there a time limit, a statute of limitations on expectations? In your final moments, aren’t you free to pursue your own ends by the means you choose?”
“What you never see as a diagnostic category: the absence of love. Abuse manifesting itself as backache. Neglect resurfacing as chronic, unexplained pain. You have to go to the artists to find the emotional depth I am talking about.”
“We used to leave Santo Domingo to avoid Trujillo and his butchers, now I have to send my son home to avoid the gangs here.”
“This was a man and his wife trying to gain a millimeter toehold on a brutal economic ladder that was created by political and economic forces beyond their control.”
“This family was a breeder reactor for psychic injury and pain. It would demand more human sacrifice. More lambs to the slaughter. Who would be next? Would it be by drugs, alcohol, cutting, food, emotional distancing, promiscuity, or the intergalactic emptiness that lives at the bottom of lovelessness?”
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Book Keywords:
death, concerns, live
