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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 world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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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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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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Geography is destiny.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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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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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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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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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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