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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.

Abraham Verghese

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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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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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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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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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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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She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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