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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.

Abraham Verghese

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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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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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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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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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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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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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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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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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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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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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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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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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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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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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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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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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