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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.

Abraham Verghese

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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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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.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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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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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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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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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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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 rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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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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