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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.

Abraham Verghese

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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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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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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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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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Best Computer Hospitalized Important Patient Screen Understand Way
That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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Angel Back Blessed Country Funny Hold People Thank You Thing
I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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Become Found Grew Physician Purpose Up
Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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Definition Home House Question Wanted
When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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Currency Heart Lose Often Open Selfish Straighten Warped Winning
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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Describe Interest Number One Only Pray Read Two Would Zero
It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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Leave Lifetime Much Next Generation Task Unfinished
According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
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Broken End Fixing Generation Hole Metaphors Precisely Shiva Task
I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.
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Access Blessed Care Country Health Insured Kind Thinking
You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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Backward Forward Inspire Life Live Understand
When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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Disease Element Good Handling Healing Job Mean Physical Spiritual
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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Beyond Common Death Early Lucky Purpose Unbidden
Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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