A Life Worth Living Quotes

“There is one essential requirement for being close with a dying person: the letting go of self-concern.”
― Robert Martensen, A Life Worth Living: A Doctor's Reflections on Illness in a High-Tech Era

“Our health care approaches squander billions on extravagant treatment regimes that end up accomplishing little, as a society we refuse to adopt the small, even tiny adjustments that could easily reduce the clawing uncertainties that now degrade millions.”
― Robert Martensen, A Life Worth Living: A Doctor's Reflections on Illness in a High-Tech Era

“It costs about the same to house a maximum-security young adult prisoner for a year as it does to send his law-abiding counterpart to Harvard.”
― Robert Martensen, A Life Worth Living: A Doctor's Reflections on Illness in a High-Tech Era