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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

Abraham Verghese

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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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 grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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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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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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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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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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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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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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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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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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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
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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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