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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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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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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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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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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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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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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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You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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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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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
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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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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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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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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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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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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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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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