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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.

Abraham Verghese

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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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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 a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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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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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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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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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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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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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 joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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