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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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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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Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?

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

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

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

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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.

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If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.

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You live it forward, but understand it backward.

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

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

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

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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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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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