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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.

Abraham Verghese

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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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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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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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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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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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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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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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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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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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