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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

Abraham Verghese

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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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’ve had my share of angels.
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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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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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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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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 think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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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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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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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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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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