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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.

Abraham Verghese

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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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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 world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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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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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
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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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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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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.
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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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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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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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