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

Abraham Verghese

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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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Anybody Love Poetry Read Reading Show Willing Written
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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Apt Divide Family Hole Kind Metaphor Profession Still
I’ve had my share of angels.
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Angel Gift Surprise Mine Share Unique
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
In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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Comfort Ears Emergencies Treatment Word
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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Cancer Flip Leave Mind People Side Suicide
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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God Instrument Leave Play Sitting Son Three
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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Altogether Another Care Cost Health Much Problem Reform Story
For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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Airports Body Country Doe Information Interest Opportunity Treasure
We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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Disease Fighting Food Help Medicine Money Poverty
I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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Best Computer Hospitalized Important Patient Screen Understand Way
There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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Book Feeling Lovely Meaningful Read Writing
The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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Action Know Omission Turn Whether World
Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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Birth Broken Fixing Moment Occur Sometimes Wound
How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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Brethren Country Least Measure Treat
God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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Care God Human Being Judge Judging Relieve Suffering Thinking

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