Christiaan Barnard (1922–2001) South-African physician
Quoted in Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations by Peter McDonald (Oxford University Press, 2004), p. 9 https://books.google.it/books?id=MuTnCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA9. <br class="br">Attributed
“Avoidance is just prolonged suffering disguised as safety.”
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