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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.

Abraham Verghese

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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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Helping Home Patient
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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Describe Interest Number One Only Pray Read Two Would Zero
Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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Leave Lifetime Much Next Generation Task Unfinished
We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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God Greatest Ignoring Made Possible Sin
There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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Book Feeling Lovely Meaningful Read Writing
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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Deathbed Heart Mean Patient People Regret VIP
Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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Addressing Anyone Broken Job Leg Medicine Terrible Trip
The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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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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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
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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