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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.

Abraham Verghese

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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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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.
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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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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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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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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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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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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.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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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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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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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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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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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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