Bookish Hound

“We need to kill with kindness. Cure with compassion.”
― Holly Bourne, Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes?

“It’s funny – you don’t think of doctors getting ill.’ It’s true, and I think it’s part of something bigger: patients don’t actually think of doctors as being human. It’s why they’re so quick to complain if we make a mistake or if we get cross. It’s why they’ll bite our heads off when we finally call them into our over-running clinic room at 7 p.m., not thinking that we also have homes we’d rather be at. But it’s the flip side of not wanting your doctor to be fallible, capable of getting your diagnosis wrong. They don’t want to think of medicine as a subject that anyone on the planet can learn, a career choice their mouth-breathing cousin could have made.”
― Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

“As they say, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“We have no immortal souls; we have no future life; we are just like the green sea-weed, which, once cut down, can never revive again! Men, on the other hand, have a soul which lives for ever, lives after the body has become dust; it rises through the clear air, up to the shining stars!”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid