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Abraham Verghese

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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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Ecstasy Happened Intrusion Ordinary Sacred Sudden
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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Helping Home Patient
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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Eerie Feeling Mentor Mouthpiece Old Room Shoe
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
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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Deathbed Heart Mean Patient People Regret VIP
We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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Capacity Great Medicine Patient Sense Student Suffering Year
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
Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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Country Interlude Less Life Meal More
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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Information Ironically Language Learning Process Specialised Volume
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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Disease Element Good Handling Healing Job Mean Physical Spiritual
In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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Comfort Ears Emergencies Treatment Word
…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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Action Guilt Lead Rarely Right Righteous
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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Calmness Emergency Falseness Familiar Fashion Feeling Felt Medicine
Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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Bowel Careful Expand Loosen Mind Travel
When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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Call Hardly Himself Man Mysterious Mystery
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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Ability Completely End Language Medical Partly Specialized Teach Third Year

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