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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.


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A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.



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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.



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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.



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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.



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