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You live it forward, but understand it backward.

Abraham Verghese

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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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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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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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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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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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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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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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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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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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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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