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He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live.

Abraham Verghese

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Abraham Verghese
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 1
Physician
University Teacher
Writer
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
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Taught
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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 crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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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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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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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they'll leave in people's hearts. 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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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.
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...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life... 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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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.
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Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,... that's the measure of this country.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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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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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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