Frases de Sherwin B. Nuland (7 citas)

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“Tradition is a persuasive teacher, even when what it teaches is erroneous.”

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Sherwin B. Nuland

[Doctors: the biography of medicine, Random House, 1995, 4, https://books.google.com/books?id=22hNffrgFCkC&pg=PA4]
Doctors (1988)

“If there is one operation for a disease, you know it works. If there are fifteen operations, you know that none of them work.”

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Sherwin B. Nuland

[The extraordinary power of ordinary people, TED Talks, February 2003, https://www.ted.com/talks/sherwin_nuland_on_hope] (2:40 of 12:31 in video)

“The later decades of a life become the time for our capabliites to find an unscattered focus, and in this way increase the force of their concentraled worth.”

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Sherwin B. Nuland

[The art of aging: a doctor's prescription for well-being, 2008, Random House, 10, https://books.google.com/books?id=7JR_1wsxvz8C&pg=PA10]
The Art of Aging (2007)

“Long after the theories on which they were based had been debunked, Galen's concepts of sickness and its treatment continued to have a pervasive influence on the daily practice of medicine. Indeed, it is a measure of medicine's progress over the past fifty years that a goodly number of his remedies were still being used until well into the twentieth century.”

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Sherwin B. Nuland

[Doctors: the biography of medicine, Random House, 1995, 53, https://books.google.com/books?id=22hNffrgFCkC&pg=PA53]
Doctors (1988)

“Poets, essayists, chroniclers, wags, and wise men write often about death but have rarely seem it. Physicians and nurses, who see it often, rarely write about it.”

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Sherwin B. Nuland

[How we die: reflections on life's final chapter, Vintage, 1995, Random House, 1995, 8, https://books.google.com/books?id=ffj03ghdnqwC&pg=PA8]
How We Die (1994)

“The tendency toward mysticism is ingrained in human nature. Superstition, religion, and medicine have made their long journey together, and even now are unable to let go of one another's hands.”

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Sherwin B. Nuland

[The mysteries within: a surgeon explores myth, medicine, and the human body, Simon & Schuster, 2001, 18, https://books.google.com/books?id=uSBaTVMTYvIC&pg=18]
The Mysteries Within (2000)

“In its own unhurried way, age soundlessly and with persistence treads ever closer behind us on slippered feet, catches up, and finally blends itself into us—all while we are still denying its nearness.”

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Sherwin B. Nuland

[The art of aging: a doctor's prescription for well-being, 2008, Random House, 9, https://books.google.com/books?id=7JR_1wsxvz8C&pg=PA9]
The Art of Aging (2007)