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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession

Abraham Verghese

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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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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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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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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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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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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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