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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.

Abraham Verghese

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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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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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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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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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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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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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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 we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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