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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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You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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Clumsy Exam Getting Heartbeat Patient
A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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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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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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Empathy Huge Learning Medical Need Process School Sight Volume
What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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Administered Ear Emergency Treatment
I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
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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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Basic Cared Feel Human Life Patient Right Save
He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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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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Anybody Love Poetry Read Reading Show Willing Written
Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
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Apt Divide Family Hole Kind Metaphor Profession Still
We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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Action Guilt Lead Rarely Right Righteous

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