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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.

Abraham Verghese

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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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Action Guilt Lead Rarely Right Righteous
When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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Another Gift Morning Sight Sunrise Wake
Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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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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Confidence Expect Around First Glance More Seductive Self
The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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God Greatest Ignoring Made Possible Sin
There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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Conscious Exact Moment Professor Teacher Trotting Year
The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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Action Know Omission Turn Whether World
We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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Crookedness Enough Serpent Slide Snake
I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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Angry Dream Feeling Hurt Loved Myself Togetherness Unreasonable
You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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God Instrument Leave Play Sitting Son Three
A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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Bag Beautiful Black Caring Collection Country Literary Remove Romantic
No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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Believer Destiny Follow Geography Great Update
Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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Certainly Medical Model Physician Role School Uncle
Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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Absurdity Arrive Descend Hole Job Place Point Preserve relief Yourself

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