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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

Abraham Verghese

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Make something beautiful of your life.
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I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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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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