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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.

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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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Geography is destiny.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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