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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.

Abraham Verghese

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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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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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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
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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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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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