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The cruellest failure in caring for the sick and old is ignoring priorities beyond safety and a longer life
Drawn from what Atul Gawande said
What Atul Gawande actually said
- Atul Gawande American surgeon, writer and public health researcher
our most cruel failure in how we treat the sick and the aged is the failure to recognize that they have priorities beyond merely being safe and living longer
Where this was said
↗Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Metropolitan Books, 2014)archive.org
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