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Geography is destiny.
Make something beautiful of your life.
Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?
Being the first born gives you great patience.
You live it forward, but understand it backward.
I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.
What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.
Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live.
In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
How we treat the least of our brethren,... that's the measure of this country.
Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.
It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.
We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays the bills.
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.
By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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.
She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
So I consider myself a dog person. Kind of. Had dogs when I was a kid, but my parents would never have dreamed of having them in the house.
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.
When you have a natural genetic tan developed over centuries and many generations, the idea of soaking up rays by the pool has never made sense.
Lest it sound as if I resent my day job, I have to say that my day job is the reason I write, and it has been the best thing for me as a writer.
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.
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.
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.