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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-

Abraham Verghese

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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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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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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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Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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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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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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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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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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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 joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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