The effects of the attacks against health facilities emanate far beyond those immediately killed and injured. They demolish routine and lifesaving health care for all. They make life impossible. Full stop.
Joanne LiuRead
If I'm at the front line and refuse to treat a patient, it's considered a crime. As a physician, this is my oath. I'm going to treat everyone regardless.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote emphasizes the moral duty of a physician to treat all patients, regardless of circumstances, as part of their professional oath.
Joanne Liu's quote captures the essence of a physician's commitment to their ethical responsibility to provide care to all individuals in need. It highlights the importance of standing up for one's principles, particularly in the face of adversity, and underlines the idea that neglecting to help those who are suffering can have serious moral and legal implications.
Themes
PhysicianOathTreatmentHumanityCare
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be used in a speech at a medical conference to inspire future doctors.
More from Joanne Liu
All quotes βSomehow we got used to death, and then we dehumanised it. We account for conflicts in figures. Ebola is 13,500 infected, 5,000 people have died... People are losing their sense of empathy, their sense of wanting to do something.
Joanne LiuRead
Similar quotes
Every Fourth of July, our Declaration of Independence is produced, with a sublime indignation, to set forth the tyranny of the mother country and to challenge the admiration of the world. But what a pitiful detail of grievances does this document present in comparison with the wrongs which our slaves endure!
William Lloyd GarrisonRead
Don't be silly, Dawlish. I'm sure you are an excellent Auror, I seem to remember you achieved 'Outstanding' in all your N.E.W.T.s, but if you attempt to β er β 'bring me in' by force, I will have to hurt you.
J. K. RowlingRead
The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied.
Haile SelassieRead
Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
Alan AldaRead
When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.
Eric HofferRead
I will come again & conquer you because as a mountain you can't grow, but as a human, I can
Edmund HillaryRead