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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.

Abraham Verghese

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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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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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The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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Geography is destiny.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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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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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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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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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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