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

Abraham Verghese

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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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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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If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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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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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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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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Geography is destiny.
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