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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.

Abraham Verghese

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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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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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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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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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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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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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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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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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