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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.

Abraham Verghese

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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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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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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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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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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Back Carried Educated Looking Physician Probably Uncle Well
A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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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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I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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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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I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.
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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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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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