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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.

Abraham Verghese

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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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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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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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Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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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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When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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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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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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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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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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Make something beautiful of your life.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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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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