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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.

Abraham Verghese

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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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Believe Cat Hospital Inspiration Joke Limb Missing Motivation Scan
I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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Become Found Grew Physician Purpose Up
We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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Alive Beautiful Imagination Keeping Literature Time World
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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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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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
Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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Book Clothes Fewer Man Men
For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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Airports Body Country Doe Information Interest Opportunity Treasure
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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The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
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Information Ironically Language Learning Process Specialised Volume
It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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Leave Lifetime Much Next Generation Task Unfinished
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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