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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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I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams.
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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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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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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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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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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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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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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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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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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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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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