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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.

Abraham Verghese

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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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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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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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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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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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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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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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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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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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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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