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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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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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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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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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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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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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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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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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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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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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