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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.

Abraham Verghese

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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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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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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 crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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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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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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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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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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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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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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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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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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