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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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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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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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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Geography is destiny.
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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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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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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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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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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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The Country Doctor Revisited captures the trials and tribulations of medicine, but also the satisfaction and the extraordinary rewards that come to those who embrace such a practice.
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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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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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