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Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.

Abraham Verghese

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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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The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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Clumsy Exam Getting Heartbeat Patient
In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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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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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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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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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
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When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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