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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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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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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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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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.
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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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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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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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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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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’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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