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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.

Abraham Verghese

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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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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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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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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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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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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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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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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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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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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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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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