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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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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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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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God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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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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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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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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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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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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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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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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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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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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