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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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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.
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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
…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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Action Guilt Lead Rarely Right Righteous
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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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Action Become Destiny Omisison
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 crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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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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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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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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Bottom Care Health Line Patient Physician Reform
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
The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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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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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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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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Anybody Love Poetry Read Reading Show Willing Written
It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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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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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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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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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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Bowel Careful Expand Loosen Mind Travel
The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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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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