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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.

Abraham Verghese

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.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Body Feeling Leave Physician Sense Technology Visualize Wonderful
Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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Another Day Gift Inevitable Paradise Pillow Precious Pronouncement Settled
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
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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Helping Home Patient
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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Barber Bleeding Cupping Giving Matter Purging Surgeon Teeth
I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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Best Computer Hospitalized Important Patient Screen Understand Way
That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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Angel Back Blessed Country Funny Hold People Thank You Thing
She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.
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Chasing Died Each Elsewhere Greatness Hand never Saw Seeking Time
Geography is destiny.
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Culture Destiny Geography Gift Offering Past Tradition Wisdom
You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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God Instrument Leave Play Sitting Son Three
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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Back Carried Educated Looking Physician Probably Uncle Well
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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Information Ironically Language Learning Process Specialised Volume
The Country Doctor Revisited captures the trials and tribulations of medicine, but also the satisfaction and the extraordinary rewards that come to those who embrace such a practice.
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Black Country Day Doctor Image Medicine Revisited Romantic Rural Technology
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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Advance Medicine Technology Time Today Variety
In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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Comfort Ears Emergencies Treatment Word
We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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Capacity Great Medicine Patient Sense Student Suffering Year

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