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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.

Abraham Verghese

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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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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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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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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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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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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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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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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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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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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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