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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.

Abraham Verghese

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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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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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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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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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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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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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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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When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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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.
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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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