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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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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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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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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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Associate Baptism Elaborate Inauguration Marriage President Ritual
When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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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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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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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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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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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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