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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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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
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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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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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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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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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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 world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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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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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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