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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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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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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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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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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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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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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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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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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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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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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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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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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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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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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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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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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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Make something beautiful of your life.
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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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