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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 know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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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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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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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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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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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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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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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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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
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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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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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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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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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