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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

Abraham Verghese

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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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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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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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I’ve had my share of angels.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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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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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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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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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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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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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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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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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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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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