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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.

Abraham Verghese

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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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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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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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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
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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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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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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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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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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
I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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