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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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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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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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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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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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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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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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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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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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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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