What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThe world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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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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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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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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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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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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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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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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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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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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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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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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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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