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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;.

Abraham Verghese

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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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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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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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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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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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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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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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Geography is destiny.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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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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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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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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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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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 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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