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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you

Abraham Verghese

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I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
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Country Foreign Graduate Man Medical Men Resident Thinking
Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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Broken Family Ground Indian Modern New Read Sandip Roy Tale
What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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Empathy Huge Learning Medical Need Process School Sight Volume
If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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Allow Fellow Make Nothing Observation Opportunity Prolonged Traveler
My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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Deathbed Heart Mean Patient People Regret VIP
In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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Comfort Ears Emergencies Treatment Word
She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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Calmness Emergency Falseness Familiar Fashion Feeling Felt Medicine
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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Church Eulogy Legacy Matter Money Procession Realize Remove Service
If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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Always Bitter Feeding Keep Promise Saying Searching Slipper
Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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Certainly Medical Model Physician Role School Uncle
Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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Action Become Destiny Omisison
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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Administered Blink Comfort Ear Emergency Father Gaze Treatment
I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams.
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Age Care Constant Dream Dying Feeling Hearing People Taking Transient
I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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Become Found Grew Physician Purpose Up
We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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Average Healthcare Physicians
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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Conscious Exact Moment Professor Teacher Trotting Year
This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
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Cancer Crossed Cut Cutting Dessented Excised High Ocean Past Plain Plan
A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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Covered Earth Fault Man Money Surgeon
For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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Airports Body Country Doe Information Interest Opportunity Treasure
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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Battle Beat Cancer Fortunate Long Posthumously Praised Succumbed
There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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Capacity Composed Emote Grief Human Result Strangely
Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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Alive Beautiful Imagination Keeping Literature Time World
I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.
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Access Blessed Care Country Health Insured Kind Thinking
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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Eerie Feeling Mentor Mouthpiece Old Room Shoe
Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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Board Digit Jumped Number Pray Shiva Two Uninvited Wrote Zero
You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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God Instrument Leave Play Sitting Son Three
He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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Climbing Escaping House Ladder Many Pulling Tree Way

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