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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.

Abraham Verghese

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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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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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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.
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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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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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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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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 had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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