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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.

Abraham Verghese

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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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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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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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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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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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Geography is destiny.
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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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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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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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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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