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HMS Grads to Shape the Future

Class of 2012, yours is a time of exhilarating change that is vast in scope: Today, all health is global. You will, I am certain, have the opportunity to ease human suffering to a degree that is wholly unprecedented.
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Commencement speaker Donald Berwick, HMS lecturer on health care policy and former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, told Harvard Medical School graduates: "We got our compass the day we decided to be healers. Our compass is one simple question, and it will point us true north: How will it help the patient?”

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