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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.

Abraham Verghese

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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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Geography is 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 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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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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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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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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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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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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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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Make something beautiful of your life.
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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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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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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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