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You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .

Abraham Verghese

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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
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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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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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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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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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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 bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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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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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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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 greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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