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When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.

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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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I’ve had my share of angels.
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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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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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