I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEAnd 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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When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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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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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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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’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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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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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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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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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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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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