
“Never let the sun go down on an argument.”
Claire Messud
more infosource: The Woman Upstairs (New York: Knopf, 2013), 49.
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category: argument, fight, resolution
medium: Fiction
“The simple view is that medicine exists to fight death and disease, and that is, of course, its most basic task. Death is the enemy. But the enemy has superior forces. Eventually, it wins. And, in a war that you cannot win, you don’t want a general who fights to the point of total annihilation. You don’t want Custer. You want Robert E. Lee, someone who knew how to fight for territory when he could and how to surrender when he couldn’t, someone who understood that the damage is greatest if all you do is fight to the bitter end.”
Atul Gawande
more infosource: “Letting Go,” The New Yorker, August 2, 2010.
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category: death, disease, fight, George Custer, medicine, Robert E. Lee, surrender
medium: magazine article


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