Sherwin B. Nuland Quote

Self-awareness has never been the strong suit of those who choose to become doctors. When so much fuel is readily available for stoking the fires of ego, there is little inclination to apply it in raising the candlepower of the searching light that might illumine the inner man or woman.


The Uncertain Art: The Whole Law of Medicine, The American Scholar, Volume 67, Number 3, Summer, 1998


Self-awareness has never been the strong suit of those who choose to become doctors. When so much fuel is readily available for stoking the fires of...

Self-awareness has never been the strong suit of those who choose to become doctors. When so much fuel is readily available for stoking the fires of...

Self-awareness has never been the strong suit of those who choose to become doctors. When so much fuel is readily available for stoking the fires of...

Self-awareness has never been the strong suit of those who choose to become doctors. When so much fuel is readily available for stoking the fires of...