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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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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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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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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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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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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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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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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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