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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.’

Abraham Verghese

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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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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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You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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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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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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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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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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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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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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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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The Country Doctor Revisited captures the trials and tribulations of medicine, but also the satisfaction and the extraordinary rewards that come to those who embrace such a practice.
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