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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.

Abraham Verghese

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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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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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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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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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Back Carried Educated Looking Physician Probably Uncle Well
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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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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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 did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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