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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 was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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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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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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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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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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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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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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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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