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

Abraham Verghese

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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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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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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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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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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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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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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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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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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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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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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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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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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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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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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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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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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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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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