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

Abraham Verghese

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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 know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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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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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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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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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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