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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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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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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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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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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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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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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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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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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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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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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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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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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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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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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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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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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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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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