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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.

Abraham Verghese

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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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