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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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Geography is destiny.
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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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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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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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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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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.
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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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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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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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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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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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