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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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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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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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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’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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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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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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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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I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams.
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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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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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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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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
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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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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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Capacity Great Medicine Patient Sense Student Suffering Year
I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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