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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.

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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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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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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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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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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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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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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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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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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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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