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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.

Abraham Verghese

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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.
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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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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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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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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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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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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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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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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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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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