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I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.

Abraham Verghese

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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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Become Found Grew Physician Purpose Up
No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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Blade Heart Human Parenting Puncture Son Spiteful
Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
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Backward Caught Forward Life Look Near Stop Understand Wheel
If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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Ecstasy Happened Intrusion Ordinary Sacred Sudden
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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Ancient Apprentice Become Down Due Look Master Paid Ship
We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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Disease Fighting Food Help Medicine Money Poverty
My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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Body Feeling Leave Physician Sense Technology Visualize Wonderful
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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Bent Child Death Entirely Over Realized She Tragedy Unfulfilled
Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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Clumsy Exam Getting Heartbeat Patient
I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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Anybody Love Poetry Read Reading Show Willing Written
We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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Capacity Great Medicine Patient Sense Student Suffering Year
To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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Confidence Expect Around First Glance More Seductive Self
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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Always Bitter Feeding Keep Promise Saying Searching Slipper
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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Church Eulogy Legacy Matter Money Procession Realize Remove Service
I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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Believer Destiny Follow Geography Great Update
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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Back Carried Educated Looking Physician Probably Uncle Well

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