Many years before when I had serious back pain from a sports injury, the surgeons said they would explore my spine and "figure it out." Out of frustr….

Even when there is no longer hope for the body, there is always hope for the soul..

False hope can lead to intemperate choices and flawed decision making. True hope takes into account the real threats that exist and seeks to navigate….

Hope is the elevating feeling we experience when we see - in the mind's eye - a path to a better future..

To hope under the most extreme circumstances is an act of defiance that permits a person to live his life on his own terms. It is part of the human s….

Hope, true hope, has proved as important as any medication I might prescribe or any procedure I might perform..

There is an authentic biology of hope. Belief and expectation - the key elements of hope - can block pain by releasing the brain's endorphins and enk….

On average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story..

Hope differs from optimism. Hope does not arise from being told to "think positively," or from hearing an overly rosy forecast. Hope, unlike optimism….

Hope can be imagined as a domino effect, a chain reaction, each increment making the next increase more feasible... There are moments of fear and dou….

Help, then, is the ballast that keeps us steady, that recognizes where along the path are the dangers and pitfalls that can throw us off; hope temper….

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….

True hope is cleareyed. It sees all the difficulties that exist and all the potential for failure, but through that carves a realistic path to a bett….

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

I feel that I have to do everything better just to be judged as okay. It is something I wish I could let go of. It's something that I wish just wasn'….

Hope gives us the courage to confront our circumstances and the capacity to surmount them..