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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 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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She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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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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I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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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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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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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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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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