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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

Abraham Verghese

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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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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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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.
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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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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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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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Geography is destiny.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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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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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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