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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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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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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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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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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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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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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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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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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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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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