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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.

Abraham Verghese

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I’ve had my share of angels.
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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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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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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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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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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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