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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil

Abraham Verghese

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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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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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Currency Heart Lose Often Open Selfish Straighten Warped Winning
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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Helping Home Patient
Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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Clumsy Exam Getting Heartbeat Patient
Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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Board Digit Jumped Number Pray Shiva Two Uninvited Wrote Zero
Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
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Apt Divide Family Hole Kind Metaphor Profession Still
Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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Absurdity Arrive Descend Hole Job Place Point Preserve relief Yourself
A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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Begin Boo Club Discourse Living Meaningful Room Spread
Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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Administered Blink Comfort Ear Emergency Father Gaze Treatment
As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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Bent Child Death Entirely Over Realized She Tragedy Unfulfilled
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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Believe Herat Inspiration Motivation Patient Transcendent
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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Black Country Day Doctor Image Medicine Revisited Romantic Rural Technology
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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Conscious Exact Moment Professor Teacher Trotting Year
At times, with today’s advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America’s cities, but the variety of practices is enormous.
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Advance Medicine Technology Time Today Variety
It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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Leave Lifetime Much Next Generation Task Unfinished
Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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Broken Family Ground Indian Modern New Read Sandip Roy Tale
I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
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Hookworm Hunger People Scripture Thinking
We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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Average Healthcare Physicians
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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Best Country Delay Enjoy Flight Perhaps Seem Word
And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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Describe Interest Number One Only Pray Read Two Would Zero
Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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Country Interlude Less Life Meal More
How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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Brethren Country Least Measure Treat
The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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Bottom Care Health Line Patient Physician Reform
God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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Care God Human Being Judge Judging Relieve Suffering Thinking
If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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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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Always Book Contributing Country Middle Sense Wanted Write
To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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Confidence Expect Around First Glance More Seductive Self

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