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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.

Abraham Verghese

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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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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Geography is destiny.
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When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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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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God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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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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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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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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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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