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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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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 that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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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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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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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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If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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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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