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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.

Abraham Verghese

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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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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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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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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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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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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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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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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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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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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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