

“But death is not always a bad outcome, you know, and a quick death can be better than a slow one.”
― Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
― Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery

“Angor animi - the sense of being in the act of dying, differing from the fear of death or the desire for death.”
― Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
― Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery

“...сопротивление необходимо в любом случае, даже в безнадёжной на вид ситуации.”
― Ondskan
― Ondskan

“Every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray – a place of bitterness and regret, where he must look for an explanation for his failures.’ René Leriche, La philosophie de la chirurgie, 1951”
― Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery
― Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery

“Anxiety might be contagious, but confidence is also contagious”
― Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
― Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
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