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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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Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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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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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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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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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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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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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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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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