The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.

Margaret Heffernan
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  2. What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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More Quotes By Margaret Heffernan
  1. I can blend words easily with my pen, and show concepts from deep within. Yet not everyone gets the message I send. So why do I even let these words begin? Maybe they will soak in one day at the right time. When the readers...

  2. Don't live by my words, don't die by them, chew them slowly digest them, and smile if they give nourishment to your soul.

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  4. Basically all the religions, sciences and powers of the world boil down to a simple truth. The Best Story Teller will win in the end!

  5. The wheel of life has many spokes yet so few people ever leave the hub.

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