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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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Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
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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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I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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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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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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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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When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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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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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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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