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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 always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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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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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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Administered Ear Emergency Treatment
Being the first born gives you great patience.
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Being Born First Giving Great Patience
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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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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Action Guilt Lead Rarely Right Righteous
Geography is destiny.
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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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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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She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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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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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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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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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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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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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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Believe Deepen Heal Ministering Will Wound Woundedness
In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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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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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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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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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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