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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.

Abraham Verghese

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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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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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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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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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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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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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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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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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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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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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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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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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