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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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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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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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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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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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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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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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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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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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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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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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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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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.
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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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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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