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For where else can I go to sample daily the richness of life in all its profound chaos? ↗

— Theresa Brown

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Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity. ↗

— Hippocrates

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My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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My father, for whose skills as a surgeon I have the deepest respect, says, "The operation with the best outcome is the one you decide not to do." Knowing when not to operate, knowing when I am in over my head, knowing when to call for the assistance of a surgeon of my father's caliber--that kind of talent, that kind of "brilliance," goes unheralded. ↗

— Abraham Verghese

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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future. ↗

— Hippocrates

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The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it ↗

— Maimonides

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She could walk through a lightning storm without being touched; grab a bolt of lightning in the palm of her hand; use the heat of lightning to start the kindling going under her medicine pot. She turned the moon into salve, the stars into swaddling cloth, and healed the wounds of every creature walking up on two or down on four. ↗

— Gloria Naylor

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It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then. ↗

— Mario Puzo

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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. ↗

— Abraham Verghese

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Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

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