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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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• ...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.

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  Guilt, Action, Righteous

  Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.139, Random House India

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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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• 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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• Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.

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  Patient, Exam, Heartbeat

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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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  Believe, Past, Black

  "Cutting for Stone". Book by Abraham Verghese, February 2009.

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• When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact. There's no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.

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  Selfish, Heart, Winning

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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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  Greatness, Hands, Saws

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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. At times, with today's advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America's cities, but the variety of practices is enormous. The Country Doctor Revisited captures the trials and tribulations of medicine, but also the satisfaction and the extraordinary rewards that come to those who embrace such a practice.

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  Beautiful, Country, Caring

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• She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.

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  Medicine, Feelings, Emergencies

  Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.42, Random House India

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• When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.

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  Men, Mysterious, Mystery

  Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.26, Random House India

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• What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?

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  Book, Men, Clothes

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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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  Opportunity, Airports, Doe

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• Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?

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  Math, Numbers, Praying

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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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  Regret, Heart, Mean

  Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.255, Random House India

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• When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.

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  Morning, Sight, Sunrise

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• We're losing a ritual. We're losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.

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  Motivation, Believe, Inspiration

  "A doctor's touch". TED Talks, www.ted.com. July 2011.

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• No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you. And, oh yes, if you wanted, he would give you a haircut and pull your tooth while he was at it.

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  Giving, Teeth, Matter

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• Another day in paradise' was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.

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  Paradise, Another Day, Precious Gifts

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• The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.

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  Snakes, Slides, Enough

  Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.385, Random House India

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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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  Memories, Stories, Alive

  Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.272, Random House India

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• I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.

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  Destiny, Geography, Believer

  "A Novel That's the Best Medicine". Interview with Tina Brown, www.thedailybeast.com. February 11, 2009.

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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. I've had my share of angels.

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  Thank You, Blessed, Angel

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• What we are fighting isn't godlessness--this is the most godly country on earth. We aren't even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines... that helps. 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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  Country, Godly, Fighting

  Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.115, Random House India

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