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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’

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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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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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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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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.
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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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