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'Savage Inequalities' was about school finance, and 'Amazing Grace' primarily dealt with medical and social injustices in New York. But with 'Ordinary Resurrections,' I had no predetermined agenda. When I met with the children, I was not in pursuit of any line of thinking. In our conversations, I let them lead me where they wanted to go.

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The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

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A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

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Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

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A hospital is no place to be sick.

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For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.

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You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.

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They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

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You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.

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In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

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