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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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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
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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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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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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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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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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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When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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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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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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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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You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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