Medical Trauma Quotes

“She isn't a child to be frightened by ghosts. She's grown woman, and she's faced real monsters, the kind who wear uniforms and wield needles and restraints.”
― A.C. Wise, Wendy, Darling

“Whatever the mind believes, the body has a better chance of becoming. An absolute diagnosis is therefore not only false, but also unhelpful.”
― Nin Mok, Suddenly Silent and Still

“Because shame is hard to scrub from the bones.
Because trauma doesn’t end; it echoes.
Because I wanted to end this story with me in my thirties, looking in the mirror and loving my body, but that’s not how this goes.
Because true stories ping between crisis and resolution, back and forth and back again, peace and horror, peace and horror.”
― Kate Gies, It Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished: A Memoir of My Body

“No one in Tarlton's family knew that she had been used in an experiment, nor that she had had radiation over her whole body. No consent form had been offered her. According to the doctors, patients were being told 'they were being treated for their disease.”
― Martha Stephens, The Treatment: The Story of Those Who Died in the Cincinnati Radiation Tests