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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.

Abraham Verghese

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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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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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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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