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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.

Abraham Verghese

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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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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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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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Geography is destiny.
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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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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 love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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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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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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