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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.

Abraham Verghese

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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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Helping Home Patient
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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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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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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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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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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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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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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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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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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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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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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