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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

Abraham Verghese

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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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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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Calmness Emergency Falseness Familiar Fashion Feeling Felt Medicine
They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.
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Chasing Died Each Elsewhere Greatness Hand never Saw Seeking Time
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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Broken End Fixing Generation Hole Metaphors Precisely Shiva Task
What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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Administered Ear Emergency Treatment
When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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Call Hardly Himself Man Mysterious Mystery
Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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Dynamic Grew Ignorance Knowledge Proportion Same
I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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Angry Dream Feeling Hurt Loved Myself Togetherness Unreasonable
In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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Cutting Medicine Short Cut Stamina Writing
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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Country Foreign Graduate Man Medical Men Resident Thinking
And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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Ability Completely End Language Medical Partly Specialized Teach Third Year
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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Basic Cared Feel Human Life Patient Right Save
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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Endeavor Good Heart Human Key Limitless Medicine Requiring Science Thinking
Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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Action Become Destiny Omisison
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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Another Day Gift Inevitable Paradise Pillow Precious Pronouncement Settled

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