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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.

Abraham Verghese

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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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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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