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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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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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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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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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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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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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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 must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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