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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.

Abraham Verghese

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When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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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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The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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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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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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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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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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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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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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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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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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