Quotes by Jacob M. Appel, Phoning Home

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“This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but with an empty room, a crisp white bed, silence.”
— Jacob M. Appel, Phoning Home
death death-and-dying health health-care

“The most dangerous ideas are not those that challenge the status quo. The most dangerous ideas are those so embedded in the status quo, so wrapped in a cloud of inevitability, that we forget they a...”
— Jacob M. Appel, Phoning Home
dangerous dangerous-ideas embedded hegemony

“Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician's relationship with his patients: I worry about how to extend their lives. This anxiety inevitably shortens my own.”
— Jacob M. Appel, Phoning Home
clinician doctoring hospital house-staff

“Maybe that is the greatest of wonders: that we can be shaped so much by those we've known closely, and equally by those we've never known at all - and that we too can change the world long after we...”
— Jacob M. Appel, Phoning Home
change grandparents immortal immortality