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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?

Abraham Verghese

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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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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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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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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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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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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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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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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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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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