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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.

Abraham Verghese

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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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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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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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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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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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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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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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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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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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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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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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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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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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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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