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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.

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Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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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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I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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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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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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