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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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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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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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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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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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Geography is destiny.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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