Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWe know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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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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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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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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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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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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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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At times, with today’s advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America’s cities, but the variety of practices is enormous.
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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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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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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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