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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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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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Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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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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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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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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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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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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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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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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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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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’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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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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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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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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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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