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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.

Abraham Verghese

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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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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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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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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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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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When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
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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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I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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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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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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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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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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