Jerome Groopman Quotes

I had learned that every patient has the right to hope, despite long odds, and it was my role to help nurture that hope.

~ Jerome Groopman

... omniscience about life and death is not within a physician's purview. A doctor should never write off a person a priori.

~ Jerome Groopman

It took more than science to make hope real.

~ Jerome Groopman

True hope has no room for delusion.

~ Jerome Groopman

The freedom of patient speech is necessary if the doctor is to get clues about the medical enigma before him. If the patient is inhibited, or cut off prematurely, or constrained into one path of discussion, then the doctor may not be told something vital. Observers have noted that, on average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.

~ Jerome Groopman