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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.

Abraham Verghese

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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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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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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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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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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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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
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Geography is destiny.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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