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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.

Abraham Verghese

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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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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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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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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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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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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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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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