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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.

Abraham Verghese

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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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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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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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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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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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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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Alive Beautiful Imagination Keeping Literature Time World
To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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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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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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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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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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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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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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