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Life is an incurable disease.

~Abraham Cowley

Topics: Disease Incurable Life

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As a young physician in the mid-'80s, caring for people who had contracted H.I.V., I lost two of my patients to suicide at a time when the virus was doing very little harm to them. I have always thought of them as having been killed by a metaphor, by the burden of secrecy and shame associated with the disease.

~Abraham Verghese

Topics: Always Associated Been Burden Caring Disease Doing Had Harm Having Little Lost Metaphor Patients People Physician Secrecy Shame Suicide Them Thought Time Two Very Virus Who Young

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When I use the word 'healing,' by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we're very good at handling, but there's always a sense of the violation. 'Why me?' '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.

~Abraham Verghese

Topics: Addressing Always Anyone Broken Disease Done Element Else Every Good Handling Healing Job Leg Me Mean Medicine Physical Sense Ski Spiritual Terrible Think Trip Use Very Violation Why Word I Think

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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialized language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism.

~Abraham Verghese

Topics: About Came Cynicism Disease Empathy Huge Information Ironically Language Learning Lose Make Medical Much Need Patient Preserve Process Replaced Schools Serve Sight Specialized Teach Volumes

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People's genes can say a great deal about their health. There are genes that reveal an increased likelihood of getting cancer, heart disease or Alzheimer's.

~Adam Cohen

Topics: About Alzheimer Cancer Deal Disease Genes Getting Great Great Deal Health Heart Heart Disease Increased Likelihood People Reveal Say

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You have friends, and they die. You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming everyone, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. That's what we're surrounded by all the time.

~Adam Driver

Topics: About Care Die Disease Everyone Friends Get People Poor Poorer Rich Richer Someone Street Surrounded Time Wall Wall Street You

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Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.

~Adam Schiff

Topics: American Assist Blessed Disease Famine Generous Great Moral Moral Obligation Obligation People Plenty Poverty Suffering Those War Who

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I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.

~Aeschylus

Topics: Disease Hate Learned More Spit Than Traitors Treachery I Have Learned

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For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.

~Aeschylus

Topics: Disease Friends Never Somehow Trust Tyranny

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For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

~Aeschylus

Topics: Another Burden Burdened Disease Doubles Groans Happiness Hatred He Heart His Near Own Poison Seated Seeing Sorrow Suffers Who

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