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I’ve had my share of angels.

Abraham Verghese

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Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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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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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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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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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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