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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.

Abraham Verghese

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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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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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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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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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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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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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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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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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Broken Fixing Generations Next Unfinished
God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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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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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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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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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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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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