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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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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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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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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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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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When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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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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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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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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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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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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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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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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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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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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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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