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

Abraham Verghese

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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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Board Digit Jumped Number Pray Shiva Two Uninvited Wrote Zero
We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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Bowel Careful Expand Loosen Mind Travel
I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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Always Book Contributing Country Middle Sense Wanted Write
I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams.
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Age Care Constant Dream Dying Feeling Hearing People Taking Transient
Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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Clumsy Exam Getting Heartbeat Patient
No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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Blade Heart Human Parenting Puncture Son Spiteful
There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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Book Feeling Lovely Meaningful Read Writing
The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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Hand Human Important Innovation Inspiration Medicine Motivation Ten Year
Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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Definition Home House Question Wanted
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?’ ‘
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Disease Element Good Handling Healing Job Mean Physical Spiritual
Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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Another Day Gift Inevitable Paradise Pillow Precious Pronouncement Settled
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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Body Feeling Leave Physician Sense Technology Visualize Wonderful
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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Ancient Apprentice Become Down Due Look Master Paid Ship
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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Believe Deepen Heal Ministering Will Wound Woundedness
Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
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Apt Divide Family Hole Kind Metaphor Profession Still

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