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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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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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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
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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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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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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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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
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