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I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.

Abraham Verghese

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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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Geography is destiny.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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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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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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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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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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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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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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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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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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