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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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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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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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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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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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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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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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Geography is destiny.
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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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