5 Quotes & Sayings By James Michael Rice

James Michael Rice is a lecturer and clinician in the Department of Family Medicine, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He is a clinical associate in the Division of General Adolescent and Pediatric Psychiatry at the University of Chicago. He is an affiliate faculty in the Department of Psychiatry at Rush University Medical Center. He is also a member of the Section on Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology in the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Read more

Dr. Rice received his medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine in 1980 and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis in 1983.

He completed a fellowship in adolescent medicine from the National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, and was chief resident at Washington University during this time. His research interests include: adolescent substance abuse; adolescent depression; adolescent personality disorders; and adolescents with suicidal behaviors. Dr.

Rice's primary teaching interests are: medical students; pediatricians; child psychiatrists; and family practice residents.

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…Late at night, when the hour is none, I dream the dreams of the damned. James Michael Rice
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In the end, every person's life is a tough act to follow. James Michael Rice
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You think you’re prepared. You think you’ve done everything you’re supposed to, study hard, work hard, keep yourself out of trouble, and then–whoosh! Something arrives out of the blue that you never saw coming. Something you never even imagined. Something that’ll knock your little world off its axis. Something that’ll either change your life for the better, or end it forever. Chaos. James Michael Rice
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It must be one of life’s little jokes... how we take everything, even life itself, for granted. We waste our childhoods wishing for what we don’t have, longing for the future, dreaming of ways to speed the time so we can hurry up and see the world. And in our later years, we’d give anything just to slow things down and go back to what we once had. James Michael Rice