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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.

Abraham Verghese

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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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Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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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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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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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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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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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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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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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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I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
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