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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.

Abraham Verghese

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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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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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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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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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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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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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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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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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Geography is destiny.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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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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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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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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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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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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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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Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
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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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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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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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