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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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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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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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According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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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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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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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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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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At times, with today’s advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America’s cities, but the variety of practices is enormous.
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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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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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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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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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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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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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