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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.

Abraham Verghese

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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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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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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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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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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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At times, with today’s advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America’s cities, but the variety of practices is enormous.
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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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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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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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