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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’

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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When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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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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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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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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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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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I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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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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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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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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