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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.

Abraham Verghese

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She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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Geography is destiny.
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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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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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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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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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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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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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