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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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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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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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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams.
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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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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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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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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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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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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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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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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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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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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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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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