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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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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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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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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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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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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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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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Geography is destiny.
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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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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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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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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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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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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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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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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams.
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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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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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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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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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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