Robert Martensen Quotes

There is one essential requirement for being close with a dying person: the letting go of self-concern.

Robert Martensen

Our health care approaches squander billions on extravagant treatment regimes that end up accomplishing little, as a society we refuse to adopt the small, even tiny adjustments that could easily reduce the clawing uncertainties that now degrade millions.

Robert Martensen

It costs about the same to house a maximum-security young adult prisoner for a year as it does to send his law-abiding counterpart to Harvard.

Robert Martensen