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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.

Abraham Verghese

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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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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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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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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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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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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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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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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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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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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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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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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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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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