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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

Abraham Verghese

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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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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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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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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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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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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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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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By Dream Success Hard Work Know Only Way
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 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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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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Book Clothes Fewer Man Men
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
I’ve had my share of angels.
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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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