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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “

Abraham Verghese

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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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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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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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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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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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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.
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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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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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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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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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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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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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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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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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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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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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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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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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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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