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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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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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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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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 I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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Another Gift Morning Sight Sunrise Wake
No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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Bottom Care Health Line Patient Physician Reform
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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Alive Currency Memories Memory Proof Stories
Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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Administered Ear Emergency Treatment
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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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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