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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.

Abraham Verghese

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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep 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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When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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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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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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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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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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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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