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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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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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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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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 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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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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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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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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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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Geography is destiny.
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When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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