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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’

Abraham Verghese

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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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Body Feeling Leave Physician Sense Technology Visualize Wonderful
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
I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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Become Found Grew Physician Purpose Up
According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
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Broken End Fixing Generation Hole Metaphors Precisely Shiva Task
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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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
I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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Angry Dream Feeling Hurt Loved Myself Togetherness Unreasonable
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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Clinical Conversion Cynical Medical School Student Undergo Year
How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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Brethren Country Least Measure Treat
We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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Capacity Great Medicine Patient Sense Student Suffering Year
What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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Administered Ear Emergency Treatment
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
Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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Action Become Destiny Omisison
You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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God Instrument Leave Play Sitting Son Three
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
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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