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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.

Abraham Verghese

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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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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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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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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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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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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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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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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
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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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If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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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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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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