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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 discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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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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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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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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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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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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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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I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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At times, with today’s advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America’s cities, but the variety of practices is enormous.
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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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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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