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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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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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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.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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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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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
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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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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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