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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…

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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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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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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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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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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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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