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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 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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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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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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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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The Country Doctor Revisited captures the trials and tribulations of medicine, but also the satisfaction and the extraordinary rewards that come to those who embrace such a practice.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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