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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.

Abraham Verghese

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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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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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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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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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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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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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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.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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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 aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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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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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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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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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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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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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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