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Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.

Abraham Verghese

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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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Action Guilt Lead Rarely Right Righteous
Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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Broken Evocative Family Lovely Loyalty Secret Share Stay Told
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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Always Bitter Feeding Keep Promise Saying Searching Slipper
She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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Assumed Bent Child Children Life Meaning Over Realized Sort Tragedy Year
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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Climbing Escaping House Ladder Many Pulling Tree Way
Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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Board Digit Jumped Number Pray Shiva Two Uninvited Wrote Zero
I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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Back Carried Educated Looking Physician Probably Uncle Well
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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Describe Interest Number One Only Pray Read Two Would Zero
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
Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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Cynicism Empathy Lesson Real Replaced
I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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Anybody Love Poetry Read Reading Show Willing Written
Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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Bowel Careful Expand Loosen Mind Travel
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
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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Cancer Flip Leave Mind People Side Suicide
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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Endeavor Good Heart Human Key Limitless Medicine Requiring Science Thinking
Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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Birth Broken Fixing Moment Occur Sometimes Wound

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