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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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Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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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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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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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 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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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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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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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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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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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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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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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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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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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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