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Being the first born gives you great patience.

Abraham Verghese

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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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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 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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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
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Destiny Family Happiness Key Motivational Own Slipper Talent
In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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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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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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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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Allow Fellow Make Nothing Observation Opportunity Prolonged Traveler
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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Battle Beat Cancer Fortunate Long Posthumously Praised Succumbed
She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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Assumed Bent Child Children Life Meaning Over Realized Sort Tragedy Year
Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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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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Angry Dream Feeling Hurt Loved Myself Togetherness Unreasonable
He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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Climbing Escaping House Ladder Many Pulling Tree Way
To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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