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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. .

Abraham Verghese

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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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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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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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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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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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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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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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