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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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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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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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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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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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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
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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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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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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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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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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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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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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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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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