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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.

Abraham Verghese

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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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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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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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Geography is destiny.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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God Greatest Ignoring Made Possible Sin
Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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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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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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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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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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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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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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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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Believe Deepen Heal Ministering Will Wound Woundedness
The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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Action Know Omission Turn Whether World
If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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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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Currency Heart Lose Often Open Selfish Straighten Warped Winning
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

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