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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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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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God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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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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Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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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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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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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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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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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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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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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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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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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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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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Geography is destiny.
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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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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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