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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.

Abraham Verghese

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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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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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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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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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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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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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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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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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