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You live it forward, but understand it backward.

Abraham Verghese

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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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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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Make something beautiful of your life.
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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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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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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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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’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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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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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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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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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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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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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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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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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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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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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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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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