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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.

Abraham Verghese

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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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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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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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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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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I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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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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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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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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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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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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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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