Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE
Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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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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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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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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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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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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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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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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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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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
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