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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you

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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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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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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
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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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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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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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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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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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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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If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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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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