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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.

Abraham Verghese

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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 most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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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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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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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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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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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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