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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

Abraham Verghese

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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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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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Become Found Grew Physician Purpose Up
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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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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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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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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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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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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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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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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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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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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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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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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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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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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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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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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