The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWe know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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Geography is destiny.
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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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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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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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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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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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