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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.

Abraham Verghese

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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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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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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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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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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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