Hope can be imagined as a domino effect, a chain reaction, each increment making the next increase more … - Jerome Groopman

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Thought is the thought of thought.

Jerome Groopman

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.

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

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

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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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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.

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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, 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.

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The trouble with addiction is that you can park the car but you can never switch off the engine or stop yourself from hearing the revs.

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