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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

Abraham Verghese

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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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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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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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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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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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The Country Doctor Revisited captures the trials and tribulations of medicine, but also the satisfaction and the extraordinary rewards that come to those who embrace such a practice.
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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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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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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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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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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
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