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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.

Abraham Verghese

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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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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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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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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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Make something beautiful of your life.
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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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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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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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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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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
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