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A Life Worth Living: A Doctor's Reflections on Illness in a High-Tech Era QUOTES

1 " It costs about the same to house a maximum-security young adult prisoner for a year as it does to send his law-abiding counterpart to Harvard. "

― , A Life Worth Living: A Doctor's Reflections on Illness in a High-Tech Era

2 " There is one essential requirement for being close with a dying person: the letting go of self-concern. "

― , A Life Worth Living: A Doctor's Reflections on Illness in a High-Tech Era

3 " Our health care approaches squander billions on extravagant treatment regimes that end up accomplishing little, as a society we refuse to adopt the small, even tiny adjustments that could easily reduce the clawing uncertainties that now degrade millions. "

― , A Life Worth Living: A Doctor's Reflections on Illness in a High-Tech Era