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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…

Abraham Verghese

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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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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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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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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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Geography is destiny.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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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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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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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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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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At times, with today’s advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America’s cities, but the variety of practices is enormous.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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