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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

Abraham Verghese

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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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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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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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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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I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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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
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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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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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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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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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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