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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.

Abraham Verghese

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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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I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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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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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
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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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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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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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Geography is destiny.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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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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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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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.
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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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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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