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Jerome Groopman

"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."

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

Jerome Groopman

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“My life is Avatar, your life is Precious.”
“The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.”
“Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.”

Source : Interview with Keith Phipps, tv.avclub.com. August 2, 2011.
“Itâ€™s been me all along,â€ said September slowly. â€œMe who gave up my shadow, me who went down into Fairyland-Below and Fairyland-Lower-Than-That to wake up the Prince. Me who shot the poor Minotaur. You oughtnâ€™t just hand the whole business over the moment a Prince comes on the scene. Iâ€™ve got to see it through, donâ€™t you see? The Hollow Queen is hollow because sheâ€™s missing the part of her thatâ€™s me. Weâ€™ve got to come together again. And he canâ€™t do a thing about that.”
“I'm trying to think of a witty comeback, when Boggs says brusquely, â€œWell, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.â€ I decide to go ahead and like Boggs.”
“If wars create vast sums of money for the global elite, is it possible the Soviets, the Viet Cong and Muslim extremists were, or are, also fabricated enemies of the West along with North Korea? Or at least exaggerated threats?”
“History tells me that when the Russians come to a country they don't go back.”
“This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.”

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