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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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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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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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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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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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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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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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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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Contemptible Misspent Rich Valuable Vanity Wisdom Yesterday
I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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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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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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