Jerome Groopman Quotes

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.

... omniscience about life and death is not within a physician's purview. A doctor should never write off a person a priori.

It took more than science to make hope real.

I had learned that every patient has the right to hope, despite long odds, and it was my role to help nurture that hope.