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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

Abraham Verghese

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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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Clinical Conversion Cynical Medical School Student Undergo Year
…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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Action Guilt Lead Rarely Right Righteous
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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Bent Child Death Entirely Over Realized She Tragedy Unfulfilled
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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Best Computer Hospitalized Important Patient Screen Understand Way
Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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Another Day Gift Inevitable Paradise Pillow Precious Pronouncement Settled
She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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Calmness Emergency Falseness Familiar Fashion Feeling Felt Medicine
No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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Blade Heart Human Parenting Puncture Son Spiteful
When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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Another Gift Morning Sight Sunrise Wake
If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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Ecstasy Happened Intrusion Ordinary Sacred Sudden
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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Altogether Another Care Cost Health Much Problem Reform Story
I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams.
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Age Care Constant Dream Dying Feeling Hearing People Taking Transient
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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Eerie Feeling Mentor Mouthpiece Old Room Shoe
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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Beyond Common Death Early Lucky Purpose Unbidden
Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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Country Interlude Less Life Meal More
The Country Doctor Revisited captures the trials and tribulations of medicine, but also the satisfaction and the extraordinary rewards that come to those who embrace such a practice.
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Black Country Day Doctor Image Medicine Revisited Romantic Rural Technology
What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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Book Clothes Fewer Man Men

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