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1:38:00
if this is practicing medicine,
if this is treating a patient...

1:38:02
then I am guilty
as charged, sir.

1:38:04
Did you consider the ramifications
of your actions?

1:38:08
What if one of your patients
had died?

1:38:10
What's wrong
with death, sir?

1:38:13
What are we so mortally
afraid of?

1:38:15
Why can't we treat death with
a certain amount of humanity
and dignity and decency...

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and, God forbid,
maybe even humor?

1:38:21
Death is not the enemy,
gentlemen.

1:38:23
If we're gonna fight a disease,
let's fight one of the most
terrible diseases of all...

1:38:26
indifference.
1:38:27
Now, I've sat in your schools and heard
people lecture on transference...

1:38:31
and professional distance.
1:38:33
Transference
is inevitable, sir.

1:38:36
Every human being
has an impact on another.

1:38:38
Why don't we want that in
a patient/doctor relationship?

1:38:42
That's why I've listened to your
teachings, and I believe they're wrong.

1:38:46
A doctor's mission should be
not just to prevent death...

1:38:50
but also to improve
the quality of life.

1:38:52
That's why you treat a disease,
you win, you lose.

1:38:55
You treat a person, I guarantee you,
you win, no matter what the outcome.

1:39:02
Now here today, this room
is full of medical students.

1:39:05
Don't let them anesthetize you.
Don't let them numb you out
to the miracle of life.

1:39:10
Always live in awe of the
glorious mechanism of the human body.

1:39:13
Let that be the focus of your studies
and not a quest for grades...

1:39:16
which'll give you no idea what kind
of doctor you will become.

1:39:19
Please try and address the board.
1:39:21
Don't wait till you're on the ward
to get your humanity back.

1:39:24
Start your interviewing skills.
Start talking to strangers.

1:39:27
Talk to your friends,
Talk to wrong numbers, everyone.

1:39:29
- Mr. Adams!
- And cultivate friendships...

1:39:32
with those amazing people in the back of
the room... nurses that could teach you.

1:39:35
They've been with people every day.
They wade through blood and shit.

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They have a wealth of knowledge,
and so do the professors you respect...

1:39:42
the ones who are not dead
from the heart up.

1:39:45
- Share their compassion.
Let that be contagious.
- Mr. Adams.

1:39:48
I demand that you turn
and address the board.

1:39:51
Sir, I want to be a doctor
with all my heart.


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