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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

Abraham Verghese

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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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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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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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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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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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