We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian …

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering. ✨ On Death and Dying. Book by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Ch. 2, 1969.
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