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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.

Abraham Verghese

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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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The Country Doctor Revisited captures the trials and tribulations of medicine, but also the satisfaction and the extraordinary rewards that come to those who embrace such a practice.
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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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God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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