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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.

Abraham Verghese

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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.
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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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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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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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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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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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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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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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