“We begin life with few obligations; we pledge allegiance to the flag, we swear to return our library books. But as we get older we take vows, we make promises, we get burdened by commitments to do no harm, to tell the truth and nothing but, to love and cherish till
death do us part. So we just keep running up a tap until we owe everything to everybody and suddenly think: what the…”
”The thing about being a surgeon, everybody wants a piece of you. We take one little oath and suddenly we're drowning in obligations; to our patients, to our colleagues, to medicine itself. So we do what any sane person would do, we run like hell from our promises. Hoping they'll be forgotten. But sooner or later, they always catch up. And sometimes you find the obligation you dread the most... isn't worth running from at all.”
”The thing about being a surgeon, everybody wants a piece of you. We take one little oath and suddenly we're drowning in obligations; to our patients, to our colleagues, to medicine itself. So we do what any sane person would do, we run like hell from our promises. Hoping they'll be forgotten. But sooner or later, they always catch up. And sometimes you find the obligation you dread the most... isn't worth running from at all.”
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