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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?

Abraham Verghese

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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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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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Hookworm Hunger People Scripture Thinking
I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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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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Back Carried Educated Looking Physician Probably Uncle Well
Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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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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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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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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Currency Heart Lose Often Open Selfish Straighten Warped Winning
To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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Confidence Expect Around First Glance More Seductive Self
Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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Dynamic Grew Ignorance Knowledge Proportion Same
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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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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Cynicism Empathy Lesson Real Replaced
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
The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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Associate Baptism Elaborate Inauguration Marriage President Ritual
Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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Certainly Medical Model Physician Role School Uncle
The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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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
I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.
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Access Blessed Care Country Health Insured Kind Thinking
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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Believe Beyond Death Doctor Early Lucky Physician Purpose Starvation Unbidden
Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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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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