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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.

Abraham Verghese

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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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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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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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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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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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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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