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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.

Abraham Verghese

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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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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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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
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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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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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At times, with today’s advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America’s cities, but the variety of practices is enormous.
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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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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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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
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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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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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