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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.

~Abraham Verghese

Topics: Clinical Conversion Cynical Medical Medical School School Students Third Undergo Year

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I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.

~Abraham Verghese

Topics: Being Believer Destiny Geography Great Great Believer

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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

~Abraham Verghese

Topics: About Bottom Bottom Line Care Health Health Care Health Care Reform Line Patient Physician Reform

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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. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.'

~Abraham Verghese

Topics: After Always America Article Attack Battle Beat Blast Cancer Chemotherapy Faith Fortunate Having Knives Long Poison Praised Radiation Taken

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I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net. Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care ... it is another story altogether.

~Abraham Verghese

Topics: Access Altogether America Another Blessed Care Care Costs Costs Even Health Health Care Health Care Costs How How Much Kind Much Net Now Problem Reform Safety Safety Net See Story Think Uninsured I Think

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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.

~Abraham Verghese

Topics: Body Exam Feeling Inside Leaves May Often Physicians Ritual Sense Technology Time Visualize Waste Waste Of Time Wonderful

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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.

~Abraham Verghese

Topics: Abreast Activities Alive Beautiful Day-To-Day Human Imagination Keeping Keeps Life Literature Never Spectrum Time Visiting Way Wider Worlds Would You Your

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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. It's like a cancer that's metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?

~Abraham Verghese

Topics: Cancer Flip Leaves Like Lingering Minds People Question Saying Side Suicide Survived Who Why

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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.

~Abraham Verghese

Topics: Also Being Curiosity Else Endeavor Everywhere Fellow Follows Good Heart Human Human Being Interest Key Learn Limitless Medicine Relationship Requiring Science Think Your I Think

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When you have a natural genetic tan developed over centuries and many generations, the idea of soaking up rays by the pool has never made sense.

~Abraham Verghese

Topics: Centuries Developed Generations Genetic Idea Made Many Natural Never Over Pool Rays Sense Tan Up You

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Biography

Nationality: Ethiopian

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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