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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

Abraham Verghese

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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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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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I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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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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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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I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams.
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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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