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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-

Abraham Verghese

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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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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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If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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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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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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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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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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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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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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