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F. Perry Wilson
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“Our desire to reach the conclusion that we are healthy makes us doubt diagnoses that we don’t want to hear, and seek out multiple opinions in the hope that we will find some data that leads us to the conclusion we wish to be true—that all is well, or at least that all is easily fixable.”
― How Medicine Works and When It Doesn't: Learning Who to Trust to Get and Stay Healthy
― How Medicine Works and When It Doesn't: Learning Who to Trust to Get and Stay Healthy
“I have come to believe that we desire hope, but what we really need is meaning. Hopelessness arises in dire situations, and being hopeful is not always rational or possible. Meaninglessness, though, is death before death. Reminding someone of the meaning of their life, even if they can’t be cured, can be transformative. Hope and meaning. Two powerful motivating forces in Medicine and in life.”
― How Medicine Works and When It Doesn't: Learning Who to Trust to Get and Stay Healthy
― How Medicine Works and When It Doesn't: Learning Who to Trust to Get and Stay Healthy
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