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““If there is a credo in practical medicine, it is that the important thing is to be sensible.””

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What is needed, however, isn't just that people working together be nice to each other. It is discipline. Discipline is hard--harder than trustworthiness and…

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My biggest fear, that 27 percent of Americans under 65 have an existing health condition that, without the protections of the Affordable Care Act,…

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“..how we seek to spend our time may depend on how much time we perceive ourselves to have. When you are young and healthy,…

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“I cannot pretend he escaped unscathed. The extended period of low blood pressure damaged an optic nerve and left him essentially blind in one…

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The battle of being mortal is the battle to maintain the integrity of one’s life,

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“an average of $94,000 during the last year of life with a metastatic breast cancer. Our medical system is excellent at trying to stave…

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“we need practice to get good at what we do. There is one difference in medicine, though: it is people we practice upon.”

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