Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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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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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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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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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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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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