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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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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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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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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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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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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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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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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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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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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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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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