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Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.

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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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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.

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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. 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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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.

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

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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.

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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

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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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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you. And, oh yes, if you wanted, he would give you a haircut and pull your tooth while he was at it.

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I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn't change them. That hurt.

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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.

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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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Being the first born gives you great patience.

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

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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.

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How we treat the least of our brethren,... that's the measure of this country.

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