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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.

Abraham Verghese

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I’ve had my share of angels.
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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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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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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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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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The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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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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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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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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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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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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