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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 flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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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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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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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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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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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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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. .
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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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I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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The Country Doctor Revisited captures the trials and tribulations of medicine, but also the satisfaction and the extraordinary rewards that come to those who embrace such a practice.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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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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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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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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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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