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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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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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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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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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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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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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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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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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Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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Geography is destiny.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
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