Do you think, in your profession you’ll be asked, “What keeps you going”?

• ”Jim was sometimes asked how he came to be a doctor to homeless people, and what kept him going.”
• “It was the challenges, I came to think, that dew Jim to this work. The faces held him there.”

The Best

• “Homeless people ought to have the benefit of doctors’ skills. ‘I really think we want doctors,’ she said. ‘But you’ve been trained all wrong.’”
• “Jim submitted his mortality report to the Journal of the American Medical Association. They accepted it but asked for revisions. He intended to comply but never found the time.”
• “Dig in and work, and not look beyond that”
• “I was struck all over again by his conversation manner: saying little, but actively listening, tilting slightly forward, his eyes unwaveringly attentive, a suggestion in his face that he was about to break into a smile. And rarely ending a conversation himself, but rather allowing almost all of them to talk for as long as they wanted, as if he had all the time in the world.”
• Humor
• Purpose
• Criticism
• Boundaries
• Sadness
• Life
• Chance
• Career
• Jim
• Success
• Perspective
• Choice
• Medicine