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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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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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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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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.
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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
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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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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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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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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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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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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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When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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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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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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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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