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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.

Abraham Verghese

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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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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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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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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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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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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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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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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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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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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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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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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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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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