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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.

Abraham Verghese

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Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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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’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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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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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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