The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.
— Christiaan Barnard
I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.
On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.
It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.
If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor.
Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.
