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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.

Abraham Verghese

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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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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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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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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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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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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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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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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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