Jerome Groopman

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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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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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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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omniscience about life and death is not within a physician's purview. A doctor should never write off a person a priori

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Certainly the primary imperative of a physician is to be skilled in medical science, but if he or she does not probe a patient's soul, then the doctor's care is given without caring, and part of the sacred mission of healing is missing