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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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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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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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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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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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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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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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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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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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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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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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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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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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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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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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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
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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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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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Leave Lifetime Much Next Generation Task Unfinished
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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