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• It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
• We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
• I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will…
• What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
• A beautiful literary collection that tells of today's country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but…
• Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
• Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had…
• The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
• 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…
• No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you. And,…
• In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
• Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?

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