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

Abraham Verghese

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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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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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You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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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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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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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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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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The Country Doctor Revisited captures the trials and tribulations of medicine, but also the satisfaction and the extraordinary rewards that come to those who embrace such a practice.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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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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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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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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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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