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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.

Abraham Verghese

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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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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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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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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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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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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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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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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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