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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.

Abraham Verghese

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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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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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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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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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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 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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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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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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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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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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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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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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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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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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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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