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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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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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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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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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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 process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
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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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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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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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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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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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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
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