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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.

Abraham Verghese

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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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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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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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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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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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I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
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You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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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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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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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.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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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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