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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.

Abraham Verghese

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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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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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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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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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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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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.
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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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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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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 love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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