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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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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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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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At times, with today’s advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America’s cities, but the variety of practices is enormous.
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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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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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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 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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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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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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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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