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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.

Abraham Verghese

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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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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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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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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 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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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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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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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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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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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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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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