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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession

Abraham Verghese

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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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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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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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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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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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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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