You don’t have to spend much time with the elderly or those with terminal illness to see how often medicine fails the people it is supposed to help. The waning days of our lives are given over to treatments that addle our brains and sap our bodies for a sliver’s chance of benefit. They are spent in institutions–nursing homes and intensive care units–where regimented, anonymous routines cut us off from all the things that matter to us in life. Our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on people and denied them the basic comforts they most need. . Atul Gawande
You have had many successes, and you have earned the right to be respected.
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Lorii Myers
You cannot give out one frequency, that of disrespect, and expect respect to flow toward you. Neither can you hold on to your biases, prejudices, and negative thinking toward something, and expect that something positive will return to you.
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Stephen Richards
Better to have the trust of the people than their respect. With trust, their respect could be earned later; without it, respect could never be deserved, and so to have it would be like poison.
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Orson Scott Card
In silence you shall face self...and have respect.
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T.F. Hodge
Respect, reverence, self-esteem Are my basic requisites I refuse to be a competitor Who struggles for personal rights
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Balroop Singh
More Quotes By Atul Gawande
An act made in fear is not the same thing as an action taken for necessity.
Mage-taught wisdom reproached him: any gift of power was two-edged.
Because you’ve survived, there is a next strategy.
You can't let your past write the future
The rebuke came, keen-edged. ‘Trusting the man is not the same thing as knowing what he’s about.
