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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.

Abraham Verghese

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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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Call Hardly Himself Man Mysterious Mystery
I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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Believe Black Future Hoe Past Smack Universe
We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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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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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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Believer Destiny Follow Geography Great Update
Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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Favorite Mathematics Number Pray Praying Share Tell
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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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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Dynamic Grew Ignorance Knowledge Proportion Same
I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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Believe Cat Hospital Inspiration Joke Limb Missing Motivation Scan
She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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Assumed Bent Child Children Life Meaning Over Realized Sort Tragedy Year
She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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Book Clothes Fewer Man Men
Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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Cynicism Empathy Lesson Real Replaced
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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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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Basic Cared Feel Human Life Patient Right Save
If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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Allow Fellow Make Nothing Observation Opportunity Prolonged Traveler

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