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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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Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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