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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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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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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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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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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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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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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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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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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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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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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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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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