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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’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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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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I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.
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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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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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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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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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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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