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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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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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Leave Lifetime Much Next Generation Task Unfinished
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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Battle Beat Cancer Fortunate Long Posthumously Praised Succumbed
If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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Ecstasy Happened Intrusion Ordinary Sacred Sudden
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
You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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God Instrument Leave Play Sitting Son Three
It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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Alive Currency Memories Memory Proof Stories
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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Hookworm Hunger People Scripture Thinking
The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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God Greatest Ignoring Made Possible Sin
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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Broken End Fixing Generation Hole Metaphors Precisely Shiva Task
…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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Action Guilt Lead Rarely Right Righteous
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
There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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Capacity Composed Emote Grief Human Result Strangely
A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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Covered Earth Fault Man Money Surgeon
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
What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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Country Disease Fight Fighting Godly Poverty
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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Age Care Constant Dream Dying Feeling Hearing People Taking Transient
In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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Cutting Medicine Short Cut Stamina Writing
I’ve had my share of angels.
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Angel Gift Surprise Mine Share Unique
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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Currency Heart Lose Often Open Selfish Straighten Warped Winning
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
Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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Action Destiny Idea Innovation Omission Success
In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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Comfort Ears Emergencies Treatment Word
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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Admit Certainly Doctor Intent Myself One Subconsciously World Young
She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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Calmness Emergency Falseness Familiar Fashion Feeling Felt Medicine
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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Absurdity Arrive Descend Hole Job Place Point Preserve relief Yourself
We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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Capacity Great Medicine Patient Sense Student Suffering Year
Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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Country Interlude Less Life Meal More

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