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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.

Abraham Verghese

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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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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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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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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
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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 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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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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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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