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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.

Abraham Verghese

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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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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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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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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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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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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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Associate Baptism Elaborate Inauguration Marriage President Ritual
No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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Describe Interest Number One Only Pray Read Two Would Zero
Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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Information Ironically Language Learning Process Specialised Volume
Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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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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