“A patient’s history is as important as their symptoms. It’s what helps us decide if heartburn is a heart attack, if a headache is a tumor… Sometimes, patients will try to re-write their own histories. They’ll claim they don’t smoke, or forget to mention certain drugs, which, in surgery, can be the kiss of death. We can ignore it all we want… but our history, eventually always comes back to haunt us.”
“Some people believe that without history, our lives amount to nothing. At some point, we all have to choose. Do we fall back on what we know? Or, do we step forward, to something new? It’s hard not to be haunted by our past. Our history is what shapes us, what guides us. Our history resurfaces. Time, after time, after time. So we have to remember. Sometimes, the most important history, is the history we’re making today.”
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