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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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I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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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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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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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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