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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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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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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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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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Geography is destiny.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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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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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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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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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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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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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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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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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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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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