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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.

Abraham Verghese

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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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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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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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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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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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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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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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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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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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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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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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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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