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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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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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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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’ve had my share of angels.
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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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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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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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