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Jerome E. Groopman has been a staff writer in medicine and biology for The New Yorker since 1998. He is also the Dina and Raphael Recanati Chair of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Experimental Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and author of five books, all written for a general audience. He has published approximately 150 scientific articles and has written several Op-Ed pieces on medicine for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The New Republic.

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Many years before when I had serious back pain from a sports injury, the surgeons said they would explore my spine and "figure it out. " Out of frustration I had impulsively opted for the procedure. They ended up fusing the vertebrae. It left me debilitated. In hindsight, I blamed myself more than the surgeons. I had pressed them for a solution when in fact none was apparent because the cause of the pain was obscure.

Blamed, Frustration, Injury, Pain, Sports

There is an authentic biology of hope. Belief and expectation - the key elements of hope - can block pain by releasing the brain's endorphins and enkephalins, mimicking the effects of morphine.

Block, Expectation, Key, Keys, Mimicking, Pain

Hope is the elevating feeling we experience when we see - in the mind's eye - a path to a better future.

Eye, Feelings, Future, Mind, Path, See

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, or cut off prematurely, or constrained into one path of discussion, then the doctor may not be told something vital. Observers have noted that, on average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.

Average, Cutting, Doctors, Necessary, Observers, Prematurely

On average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.

Average, Begin, Patients, Physicians, Stories

I had learned that every patient has the right to hope, despite long odds, and it was my role to help nurture that hope.

Long, Odds, Patient, Role, Roles

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 doubt that can deflate it.

Doubt, Effect, Feasible, Increase, Moments, Next

True hope is cleareyed. It sees all the difficulties that exist and all the potential for failure, but through that carves a realistic path to a better future.

Difficulty, Hope, Path, Potential, Realistic

Help, then, is the ballast that keeps us steady, that recognizes where along the path are the dangers and pitfalls that can throw us off; hope tempers fear so we can recognize dangers and then bypass or endure them.

Hope, Keeps, Path, Pitfalls, Throw

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 rooted in unalloyed reality.

Hope, Positively, Reality, Think, Thinking

Even when there is no longer hope for the body, there is always hope for the soul.

Body, Hope, Soul

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 is part of the human spirit to endure and give a miracle a chance to happen.

Extreme, Giving, Happen, Miracle, Part, Spirit

Hope, true hope, has proved as important as any medication I might prescribe or any procedure I might perform.

Important, Medication, Might, Prescribe, Procedure, Proved

Hope gives us the courage to confront our circumstances and the capacity to surmount them.

Capacity, Circumstances, Courage, Giving, Hope

False hope can lead to intemperate choices and flawed decision making. True hope takes into account the real threats that exist and seeks to navigate the best path around them.

Choices, Decision, Lead, Real, Takes

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. It's something that I wish just wasn't there.

Everything, Judged, Letting Go, Okay, Wish