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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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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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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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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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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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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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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
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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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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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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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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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God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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