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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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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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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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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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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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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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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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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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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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