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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?

Abraham Verghese

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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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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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I’ve had my share of angels.
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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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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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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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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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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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Geography is destiny.
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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
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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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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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