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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.

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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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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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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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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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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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
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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 world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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