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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.

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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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 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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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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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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If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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