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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-

Abraham Verghese

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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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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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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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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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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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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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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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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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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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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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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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