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

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