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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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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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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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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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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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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve 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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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Book Feeling Lovely Meaningful Read Writing
No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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.
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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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