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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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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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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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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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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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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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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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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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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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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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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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