Author of quotes: Gender Kalanithi. Page 1

Some good intentions are not enough when so much depends on the skill.

How little doctors know about the pain that we are condemning their patients

Science, as I understand it, over time, politicized, competitive, cruel and full of temptations to find a easier way.

...slinging a foreign cross, you can be crushed by his weight.

When the scalpel is useless, words become the only instrument of the surgeon.

Even drowning in blood, a person learns to remain on the surface, to swim, one clinging to the raft with the other doctors and nurses, which also washed away by the tidal wave. This is necessary in order not to lose the ability to enjoy life.

In the hospital the papers that you filed, are not just paperwork: it is fragments of stories, full of risks and triumphs.

...a little crazy. Clarity of mind is also necessary.

... to learn to be a doctor in practice will be much more difficult than spending time in University classrooms.

...to understand death when it stares you in the face-to-face.

Everything in medicine, not only the autopsy, transgresses the boundaries of the sacred. Doctors invade the body in all possible ways. They see people in moments when they most strongly scared and most vulnerable. They accompany the men when they come into this world and when they leave it.

We are never wiser than in the moment.

...I made for myself an incredible discovery: I realized that the mind just is the brain. The idea impressed me so much that all my naive perception of the world changed. It is true, of course: what else can be a busy brain? Even though we have the will, we are just biological organisms and the brain is only an organ. The literature is overflowing with big words about the importance of the individual; the brain is a kind of machine that gives a person the same importance.

To be number one is very simple: find the boy, who is now in the lead, and just become better.