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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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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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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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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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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 we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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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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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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