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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.

Abraham Verghese

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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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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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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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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 believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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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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Geography is destiny.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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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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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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