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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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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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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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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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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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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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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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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 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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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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