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We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.

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He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live.

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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you. And, oh yes, if you wanted, he would give you a haircut and pull your tooth while he was at it.

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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.

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I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net. Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care. . . it is another story altogether.

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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.

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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 relationship.

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