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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.

Abraham Verghese

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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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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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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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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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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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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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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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