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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,

Abraham Verghese

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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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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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I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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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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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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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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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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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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