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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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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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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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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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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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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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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 only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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At times, with today’s advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America’s cities, but the variety of practices is enormous.
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I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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Make something beautiful of your life.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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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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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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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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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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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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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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