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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.

Abraham Verghese

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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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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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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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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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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams.
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The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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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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