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

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

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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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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?

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Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.

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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.

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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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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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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. I've had my share of angels.

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

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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.

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

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

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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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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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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. 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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