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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.

Abraham Verghese

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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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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.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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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.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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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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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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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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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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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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Make something beautiful of your life.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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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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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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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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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