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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.

Abraham Verghese

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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Body Feeling Leave Physician Sense Technology Visualize Wonderful
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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Hookworm Hunger People Scripture Thinking
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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Believe Cat Hospital Inspiration Joke Limb Missing Motivation Scan
We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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Average Healthcare Physicians
What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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Empathy Huge Learning Medical Need Process School Sight Volume
A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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Begin Boo Club Discourse Living Meaningful Room Spread
If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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Allow Fellow Make Nothing Observation Opportunity Prolonged Traveler
There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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Book Feeling Lovely Meaningful Read Writing
By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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Helping Home Patient
When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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Another Gift Morning Sight Sunrise Wake
What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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Country Disease Fight Fighting Godly Poverty
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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Alive Beautiful Imagination Keeping Literature Time World
My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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Admit Certainly Doctor Intent Myself One Subconsciously World Young
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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Care God Human Being Judge Judging Relieve Suffering Thinking
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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Country Foreign Graduate Man Medical Men Resident Thinking
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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Always Book Contributing Country Middle Sense Wanted Write

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