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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

Abraham Verghese

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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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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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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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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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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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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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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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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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