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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.

Abraham Verghese

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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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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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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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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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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.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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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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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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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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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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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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