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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

Abraham Verghese

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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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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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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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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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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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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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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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