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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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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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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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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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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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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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Make something beautiful of your life.
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I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams.
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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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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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Geography is destiny.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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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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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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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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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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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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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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When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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