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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.

Abraham Verghese

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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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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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Being Born First Giving Great Patience
There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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Confidence Expect Around First Glance More Seductive Self
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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Cancer Flip Leave Mind People Side Suicide
Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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Birth Broken Fixing Moment Occur Sometimes Wound
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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Always Book Contributing Country Middle Sense Wanted Write
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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Eerie Feeling Mentor Mouthpiece Old Room Shoe
They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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Church Eulogy Legacy Matter Money Procession Realize Remove Service
We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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Average Healthcare Physicians
I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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Become Found Grew Physician Purpose Up
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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Admit Certainly Doctor Intent Myself One Subconsciously World Young
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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Helping Home Patient
Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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Certainly Medical Model Physician Role School Uncle
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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God Instrument Leave Play Sitting Son Three
When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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Another Gift Morning Sight Sunrise Wake

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