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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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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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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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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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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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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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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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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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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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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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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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