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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.

Abraham Verghese

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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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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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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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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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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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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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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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