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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.

Abraham Verghese

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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
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You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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