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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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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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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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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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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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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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Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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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 we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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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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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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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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