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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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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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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened 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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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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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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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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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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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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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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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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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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