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

Abraham Verghese

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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 America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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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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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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At times, with today’s advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America’s cities, but the variety of practices is enormous.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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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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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 love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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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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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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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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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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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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Make something beautiful of your life.
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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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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
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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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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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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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