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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

Abraham Verghese

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I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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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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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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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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Leave Lifetime Much Next Generation Task Unfinished
Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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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.
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Broken End Fixing Generation Hole Metaphors Precisely Shiva Task
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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I’ve had my share of angels.
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Angel Gift Surprise Mine Share Unique
When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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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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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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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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