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

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Source : Jerome Groopman (2008). “How Doctors Think”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Jerome Groopman

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“Its true. Im a simple person. Some people tend to live from trauma to trauma, and that energizes them. I have a hectic schedule, but my mind seeks simplicity - like being in nature, a long bike ride, or sitting on the back porch.”
“I'm in love with golf, and I want everybody else to share my love affair.”
“For starters, let's dispense with the cheap jokes about cannibalism. That means cracks about giving an arm and a leg - sorry - for a good book on the subject, or similar tasteless - sorry, again - attempts to make the subject more palatable - last one.”
“My parents have basically just taught me the rules of the stage and everything since I was eight.”

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“Those dreams are true which we have in the morning, as the lamp begins to flicker. [Lat., Namque sub Aurora jam dormitante lucerna Sommia quo cerni tempore vera solent.]”
“If people only knew the healing power of laughter and joy, many of our fine doctors would be out of business. Joy is one of nature's greatest medicines. Joy is always healthy. A pleasant state of mind tends to bring abnormal conditions back to normal.”
“Shoot a lower score than everybody else.”
“Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”

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