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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.

Abraham Verghese

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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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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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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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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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