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If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.

Abraham Verghese

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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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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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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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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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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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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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