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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.

Abraham Verghese

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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 grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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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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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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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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