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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.

Abraham Verghese

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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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The Country Doctor Revisited captures the trials and tribulations of medicine, but also the satisfaction and the extraordinary rewards that come to those who embrace such a practice.
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According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
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At times, with today’s advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America’s cities, but the variety of practices is enormous.
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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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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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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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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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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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