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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.

Abraham Verghese

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Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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At times, with today’s advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America’s cities, but the variety of practices is enormous.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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Geography is destiny.
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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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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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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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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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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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