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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.

Abraham Verghese

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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
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