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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.

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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

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Make something beautiful of your life.

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Geography is destiny.

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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

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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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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.

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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.

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

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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-

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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.

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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?"....I met his gaze and I did not blink. "Words of comfort," I said to my father.

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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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A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.

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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot. I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician. My intent wasn't to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession, we must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.

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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.

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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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She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.

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