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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil

Abraham Verghese

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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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Geography is destiny.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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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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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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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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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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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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