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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.

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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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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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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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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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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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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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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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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Geography is destiny.
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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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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.
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