Jerome Groopman Quotes
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I had learned that every patient has the right to hope, despite long odds, and it was my role to help nurture that hope.
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The freedom of patient speech is necessary if the doctor is to get clues about the medical enigma before him. If the patient is inhibited,…
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On average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.
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Hope is the elevating feeling we experience when we see - in the mind's eye - a path to a better future.
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Hope gives us the courage to confront our circumstances and the capacity to surmount them.
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There is an authentic biology of hope. Belief and expectation - the key elements of hope - can block pain by releasing the brain's endorphins…
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Even when there is no longer hope for the body, there is always hope for the soul.
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Hope differs from optimism. Hope does not arise from being told to "think positively," or from hearing an overly rosy forecast. Hope, unlike optimism, is…
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Hope, true hope, has proved as important as any medication I might prescribe or any procedure I might perform.
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Hope can be imagined as a domino effect, a chain reaction, each increment making the next increase more feasible... There are moments of fear and…
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To hope under the most extreme circumstances is an act of defiance that permits a person to live his life on his own terms. It…
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I feel that I have to do everything better just to be judged as okay. It is something I wish I could let go of.…
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