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Mitch Vroman.
Georgetown University.
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I was awarded the William F. Thompson
Scientific Achievement Award.
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Mmm. Emerson Elementary.
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I once drew a picture of a rabbit
that got me two gold stars.
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I'm gonna go
back over there now.
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First do no harm.
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What is implicit in this
simple precept of medicine?
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An awesome power.
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The power to do harm.
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Who gives you this power?
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The patient.
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A patient will come to you
at his moment of greatest dread..
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hand you a knife and say,
"Doctor, cut me open".
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Why?
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Because he trusts you.
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He trusts you
the way a child trusts.
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He trusts you
to do no harm.
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The sad fact is...
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human beings
are not worthy of trust.
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It is human nature to lie...
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take shortcuts,
to lose your nerve, get tired...
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make mistakes.
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No rational patient would
put his trust in a human being...
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and were not gonna let him!
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It is our mission here...
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to rigorously and ruthlessly
train the humanity out of you...
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and make you
into something better.
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We're gonna make doctors
out of you.
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Two years of studying.
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I thought we'd have more contact
with patients. Didn't you?
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Hi. I'm Patch.
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You've just experienced
a North American greeting...
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whereby one person offers
a verbal label to another...
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as an expression
of welcome and friendship.