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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.

Abraham Verghese

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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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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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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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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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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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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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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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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 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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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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