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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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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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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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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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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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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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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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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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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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