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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.

Abraham Verghese

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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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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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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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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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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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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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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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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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