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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.

Abraham Verghese

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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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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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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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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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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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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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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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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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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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Back Carried Educated Looking Physician Probably Uncle Well
A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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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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