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Now here today, this room
is full of medical students.
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Don't let them anesthetize you.
Don't let them numb you out
to the miracle of life.
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Always live in awe of the
glorious mechanism of the human body.
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Let that be the focus of your studies
and not a quest for grades...
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which'll give you no idea what kind
of doctor you will become.
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Please try and address the board.
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Don't wait till you're on the ward
to get your humanity back.
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Start your interviewing skills.
Start talking to strangers.
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Talk to your friends,
Talk to wrong numbers, everyone.
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- Mr. Adams!
- And cultivate friendships...
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with those amazing people in the back of
the room... nurses that could teach you.
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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...
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the ones who are not dead
from the heart up.
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- Share their compassion.
Let that be contagious.
- Mr. Adams.
1:39:48
I demand that you turn
and address the board.
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Sir, I want to be a doctor
with all my heart.
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I wanted to become a doctor
so I could serve others...
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and because of that
I've lost everything...
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but I've also
gained everything.
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I've shared the lives of patients
and staff members at the hospital.
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I've laughed with them.
I've cried with them.
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This is what I want to do
with my life.
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And as God is my witness...
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no matter what your decision
today, sir...
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I will still become the best damn doctor
the world has ever seen.
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Now you have the ability
to prevent me from graduating.
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You can keep me from getting
the title and the white coat.
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But you can't control
my spirit, gentlemen.
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You can't keep me from learning.
You can't keep me from studying.
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So you have a choice... you could
have me as a professional colleague...
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passionate...
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or you can have me as an
outspoken outsider, still adamant.