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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.

Abraham Verghese

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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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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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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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I’ve had my share of angels.
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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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I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams.
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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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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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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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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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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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Geography is destiny.
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