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

Abraham Verghese

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Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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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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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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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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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 are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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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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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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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams.
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