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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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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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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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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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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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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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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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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
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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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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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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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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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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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