In our 'don't just sit there, do something' culture, when we get sick we are supposed to become characters in a heroic medical narrative that conceals the remorselessness of pathology, the intractable fact of human vulnerability, and the inevitable inadequacies of medicine. To many of the participants in the medical drama, aggressive treatment - even when it fails - represents a quasi-religious quest for immortality and meaning.


Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines (ed. Cornell University Press, 2012) - ISBN: 9780801464997

Suzanne Gordon Quotes

In our 'don't just sit there, do something' culture, when we get sick we are supposed to become characters in a heroic medical narrative that...

In our 'don't just sit there, do something' culture, when we get sick we are supposed to become characters in a heroic medical narrative that...

In our 'don't just sit there, do something' culture, when we get sick we are supposed to become characters in a heroic medical narrative that...

In our 'don't just sit there, do something' culture, when we get sick we are supposed to become characters in a heroic medical narrative that...