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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.

Abraham Verghese

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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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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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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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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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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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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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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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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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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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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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