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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.

Abraham Verghese

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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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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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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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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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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
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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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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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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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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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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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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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