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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.

Abraham Verghese

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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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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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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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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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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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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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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.
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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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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 had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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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.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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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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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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