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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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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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Helping Home Patient
You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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Backward Forward Inspire Life Live Understand
To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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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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Administered Blink Comfort Ear Emergency Father Gaze Treatment
The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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God Greatest Ignoring Made Possible Sin
In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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Comfort Ears Emergencies Treatment Word
There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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Book Feeling Lovely Meaningful Read Writing
I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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Become Found Grew Physician Purpose Up
I’ve had my share of angels.
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Angel Gift Surprise Mine Share Unique
The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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Definition Home House Question Wanted
The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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Bottom Care Health Line Patient Physician Reform
Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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Action Become Destiny Omisison
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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Information Ironically Language Learning Process Specialised Volume
I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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Being Born First Giving Great Patience

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