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

Abraham Verghese

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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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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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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
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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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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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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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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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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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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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