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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.

Abraham Verghese

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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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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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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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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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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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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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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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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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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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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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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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