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When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.

Abraham Verghese

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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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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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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 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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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.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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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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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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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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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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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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