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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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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams.
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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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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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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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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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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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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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Back Carried Educated Looking Physician Probably Uncle Well
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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Always Attack Battle Cancer Country Poison Taken
We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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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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Action Know Omission Turn Whether World
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 we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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