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

Abraham Verghese

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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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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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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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Geography is destiny.
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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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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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You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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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.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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