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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.

Abraham Verghese

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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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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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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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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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God Greatest Ignoring Made Possible Sin
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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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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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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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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