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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…

Abraham Verghese

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I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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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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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
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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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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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The Country Doctor Revisited captures the trials and tribulations of medicine, but also the satisfaction and the extraordinary rewards that come to those who embrace such a practice.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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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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Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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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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The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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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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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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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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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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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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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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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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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The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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