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If you actually are a doctor and admitted it, you'd say, 'I don't cure a huge percentage, I don't have a 50 percent cure rate ... but I can have a 100 percent compassion rate'.
Patch Adams
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Patch Adams
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: May 28
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