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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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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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Capacity Great Medicine Patient Sense Student Suffering Year
Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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Action Become Destiny Omisison
If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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Allow Fellow Make Nothing Observation Opportunity Prolonged Traveler
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
And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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Ability Completely End Language Medical Partly Specialized Teach Third Year
In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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Always Attack Battle Cancer Country Poison Taken
I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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Believe Cat Hospital Inspiration Joke Limb Missing Motivation Scan
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
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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Broken Fixing Generations Next Unfinished
There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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Book Feeling Lovely Meaningful Read Writing
Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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Bach Blind Gloria Live Mice Play Settle Three Yours
Being the first born gives you great patience.
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Being Born First Giving Great Patience
I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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Become Found Grew Physician Purpose Up
Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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Even Fascinated Knowledge More Wisdom
Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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Board Digit Jumped Number Pray Shiva Two Uninvited Wrote Zero
I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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Always Book Contributing Country Middle Sense Wanted Write

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