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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.

Abraham Verghese

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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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The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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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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I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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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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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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Apt Divide Family Hole Kind Metaphor Profession Still
No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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Geography is destiny.
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Culture Destiny Geography Gift Offering Past Tradition Wisdom
Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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Clumsy Exam Getting Heartbeat Patient
Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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