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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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When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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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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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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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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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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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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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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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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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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