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You live it forward, but understand it backward.

Abraham Verghese

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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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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
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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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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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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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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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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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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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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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