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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.

Abraham Verghese

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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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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.
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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.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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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 only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
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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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