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According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.

Abraham Verghese

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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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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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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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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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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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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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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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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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