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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.

Abraham Verghese

Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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Favorite Mathematics Number Pray Praying Share Tell
I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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Believe Black Future Hoe Past Smack Universe
He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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Climbing Escaping House Ladder Many Pulling Tree Way
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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Believe Deepen Heal Ministering Will Wound Woundedness
If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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Ecstasy Happened Intrusion Ordinary Sacred Sudden
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
I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.
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Access Blessed Care Country Health Insured Kind Thinking
She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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Calmness Emergency Falseness Familiar Fashion Feeling Felt Medicine
If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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Best Country Delay Enjoy Flight Perhaps Seem Word
I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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Endeavor Good Heart Human Key Limitless Medicine Requiring Science Thinking
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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Always Bitter Feeding Keep Promise Saying Searching Slipper
It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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Eerie Feeling Mentor Mouthpiece Old Room Shoe
I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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Ancient Apprentice Become Down Due Look Master Paid Ship
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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Believe Beyond Death Doctor Early Lucky Physician Purpose Starvation Unbidden
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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Basic Cared Feel Human Life Patient Right Save
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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Cancer Crossed Cut Cutting Dessented Excised High Ocean Past Plain Plan

Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.

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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.

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