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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

Abraham Verghese

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I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.
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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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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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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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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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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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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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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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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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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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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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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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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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