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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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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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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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Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
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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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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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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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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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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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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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