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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.

Abraham Verghese

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When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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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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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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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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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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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
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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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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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