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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

Abraham Verghese

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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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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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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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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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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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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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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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I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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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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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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