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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.

Abraham Verghese

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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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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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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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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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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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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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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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