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

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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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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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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.

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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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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.

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

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Geography is destiny.

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

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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'm a great believer in geography being destiny.

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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.

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There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.

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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.

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

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Another day in paradise' was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.

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

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