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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted

Abraham Verghese

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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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Make something beautiful of your life.
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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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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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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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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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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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