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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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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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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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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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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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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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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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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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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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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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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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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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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The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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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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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams.
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