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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.

Abraham Verghese

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I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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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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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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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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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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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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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
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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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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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