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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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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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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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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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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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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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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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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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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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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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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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I’ve had my share of angels.
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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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