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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

Abraham Verghese

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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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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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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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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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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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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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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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I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
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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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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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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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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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