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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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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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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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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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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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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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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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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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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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If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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