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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 most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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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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I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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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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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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Bottom Care Health Line Patient Physician Reform
It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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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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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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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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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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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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