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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.

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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
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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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Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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At times, with today’s advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America’s cities, but the variety of practices is enormous.
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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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