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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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The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
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According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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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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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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The Country Doctor Revisited captures the trials and tribulations of medicine, but also the satisfaction and the extraordinary rewards that come to those who embrace such a practice.
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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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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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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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