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• Make something beautiful of your life.

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  Beautiful, Something Beautiful

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• According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did. Still, it's an apt metaphor for our profession. But there's another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family. Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. 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, Tasks, Generations

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• The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

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  Physicians, Reform, Care

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• Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.

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  Ignorance, Proportion, Grew

  Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.86, Random House India

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• Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.

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  Beautiful, Imagination, Alive

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• Being the first born gives you great patience.

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  Giving, Firsts, Born

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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. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.

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  Teacher, Years, Eerie

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• I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn't change them. That hurt.

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  Dream, Hurt, Feelings

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• There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-

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  Grief, Results, Capacity

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• I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I'm not sure how exactly we could manage.

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  Country, Thinking, Men

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• In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.

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  Comfort, Ears, Emergencies

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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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  Self Confidence, Seductive, Firsts

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• The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?

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  Suicide, Cancer, People

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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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  Thinking, People, Scripture

  Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.113, Random House India

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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, Generations, Next

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• The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.

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  Way, Where You Are, Knows

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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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  Vanity, Yesterday, Riches

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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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  Thinking, Judging, Suffering

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• What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?

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  Ears, Emergencies, Treatment

  Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.304, Random House India

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• We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.

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  Lucky, Purpose, Common

  Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.10, Random House India

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• Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.

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  Looks, Wheels, Caught

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• Don't Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret. Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read

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  Loyalty, Broken, Lovely

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• We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. 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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  Years, Medicine, Suffering

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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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  Jobs, Relief, Holes

  Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.273, Random House India

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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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  Technology, Feelings, Physicians

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