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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.

Abraham Verghese

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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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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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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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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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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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When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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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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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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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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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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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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