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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.

Abraham Verghese

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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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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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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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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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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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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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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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