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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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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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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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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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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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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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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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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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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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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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