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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals

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At times, with today’s advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America’s cities, but the variety of practices is enormous.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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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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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.
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When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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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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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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I’ve had my share of angels.
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