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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?

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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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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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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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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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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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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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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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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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I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
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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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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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