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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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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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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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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the 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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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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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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When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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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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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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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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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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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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