I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEAnd 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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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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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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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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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.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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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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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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Geography is destiny.
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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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