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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.

Abraham Verghese

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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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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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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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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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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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