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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.

Abraham Verghese

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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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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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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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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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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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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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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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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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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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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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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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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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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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I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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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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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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