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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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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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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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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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The Country Doctor Revisited captures the trials and tribulations of medicine, but also the satisfaction and the extraordinary rewards that come to those who embrace such a practice.
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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
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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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Make something beautiful of your life.
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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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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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