Medical judgment can be taught - laboriously, in long periods of training - but it cannot be neatly handed over as the occasion demands it. It is the irreplaceable and untransferable contribution that the healer makes to the suffering individual who would be healed. - Sherwin B. Nuland 1 Share Now -
I never had a conscious fear of death, but I did have a conscious fear of sickness. By the time I completed medical school, that fear was gone. - Sherwin B. Nuland 2 Share Now -
The writings and the recommendations of the earliest medical scientists and the new breed of clinicians between the mid-fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries were based on the supposition that sufficient study and experimentation would elucidate not only the origins of disease, but its treatment as well. - Sherwin B. Nuland 3 Share Now -
The growing professional disciplines of medical ethics and bioethics have had a profound impact on researchers, bedside doctors, associations of physicians, and government. - Sherwin B. Nuland 5 Share Now -
Cancer cells are fixed at an age where they are still too young to have learned the rules of the society in which they live. As with so many immature individuals of all living kinds, everything they do is excessive and uncoordinated with the needs or constraints of their neighbors... they are reproductive but not productive. - Sherwin B. Nuland 6 Share Now -
By the time of my ninth birthday, I had become a bit of a socialist, as I am said by conservative colleagues to be to this day. I went on within the next few years to volunteer as an envelope stuffer for the American Labor Party, and my political thinking has not shifted measurably since that time. - Sherwin B. Nuland 7 Share Now -
I never had a conscious fear of death, but I did have a conscious fear of sickness. By the time I completed medical school, that fear was gone. - Sherwin B. Nuland 8 Share Now -
Long regarded as central to the contemporary understanding of medical ethics are four principles that must be satisfied in order to fulfill the requirements of moral decision-making. These principles are autonomy, justice, beneficence, and non-maleficence. - Sherwin B. Nuland 9 Share Now -
Even putting aside the Judeo-Christian morality upon which the Constitution and our nation's culture are based, the notion of forced euthanasia would contradict the long-held body of medical ethics to which all American doctors must adhere. - Sherwin B. Nuland 10 Share Now -
