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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.

Abraham Verghese

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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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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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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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At times, with today’s advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America’s cities, but the variety of practices is enormous.
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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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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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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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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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Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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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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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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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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