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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.

Abraham Verghese

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When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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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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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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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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