Jerome Groopman Quotes

#1. I feel that I have to do everything better just to be judged as okay. It is something I wish I could let go of. It's something that I wish just wasn't there.

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#2. Statistics cannot substitute for the human being before you; statistics embody averages, not individuals.

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#3. To taking an action that could make life even worse. Psychologists call this "loss aversion." Research in cognitive

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#4. Hope differs from optimism. Hope does not arise from being told to "think positively," or from hearing an overly rosy forecast. Hope, unlike optimism, is rooted in unalloyed reality.

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#5. Hope gives us the courage to confront our circumstances and the capacity to surmount them.

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#6. Also risks of taking statins. To be sure, seeing a person in front of you has a greater impact than hearing about side effects secondhand. But even secondhand stories affect the way people think. We have also observed in

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#7. True hope is cleareyed. It sees all the difficulties that exist and all the potential for failure, but through that carves a realistic path to a better future.

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#8. Help, then, is the ballast that keeps us steady, that recognizes where along the path are the dangers and pitfalls that can throw us off; hope tempers fear so we can recognize dangers and then bypass or endure them.

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#9. It took more than science to make hope real.

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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. 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.

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#13. Researchers are learning that a change in mind-set has the power to alter neurochemistry. Belief and expectation - the key elements of hope - can block pain by releasing the brain's endorphins and enkephalins, mimicking the effects of morphine.

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#14. 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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#15. 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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#16. Even when there is no longer hope for the body, there is always hope for the soul.

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#17. Understanding statistics about the risks and benefits of a treatment is called "health literacy." It

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#18. Hope is the elevating feeling we experience when we see - in the mind's eye - a path to a better future.

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#19. True hope has no room for delusion.

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#20. A book is an experiment, and as with all experiments, there is a sense of uncertainty about how it will turn out.

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#21. Suffered muscle pain, the most common side effect of statins, or someone else who developed liver toxicity and gastrointestinal upset, which are less common

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#22. Hope, true hope, has proved as important as any medication I might prescribe or any procedure I might perform.

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#23. False hope can lead to intemperate choices and flawed decision making. True hope takes into account the real threats that exist and seeks to navigate the best path around them.

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