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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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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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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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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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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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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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Geography is destiny.
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According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
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