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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.

Abraham Verghese

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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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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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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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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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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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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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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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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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When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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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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