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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.

Abraham Verghese

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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.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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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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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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