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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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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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Make something beautiful of your life.
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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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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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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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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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According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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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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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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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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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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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
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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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You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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