"We offer such false hopes to people that every medical problem can be fixed even when you're starting to deal with an 80- or a 90-year-old body that is breaking down in multiple ways and doesn't have that resilience. And so it doesn't surprise me that someone who is completely unprepared for death may say, "Doc, do everything.""

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Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

Katy Butler

#Medical Problems Quotes #Years Quotes #People Quotes

“There's nothing harder than going on TV and saying something that you don't believe. I don't do that anymore.”
“My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though.”
“I don't have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed.”
“Soap is another article in great demand--the Continental allowance is too small, and dear, as every necessary of life is now got, a soldier's pay will not enable him to purchase, by which means his consequent dirtiness adds not a little to the disease of the Army.”
“I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.”
“Lord, when the song wants to pick up and go a little faster towards the end, it's hard for me to resist.”
“The politics of austerity, of higher taxes, decided by governments, have lengthened the economic crisis.”
“The idea of playing a part where I get to wear a completely undetectable hairpiece... you can't walk away from that.”

Source : Source: www.foxnews.com

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