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You live it forward, but understand it backward.

Abraham Verghese

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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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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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If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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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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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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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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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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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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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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