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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.

Abraham Verghese

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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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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
…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
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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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Certainly Medical Model Physician Role School Uncle
Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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Cancer Flip Leave Mind People Side Suicide
And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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Describe Interest Number One Only Pray Read Two Would Zero
A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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Covered Earth Fault Man Money Surgeon
Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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Bowel Careful Expand Loosen Mind Travel
Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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Administered Ear Emergency Treatment
Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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