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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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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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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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I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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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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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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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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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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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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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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