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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted

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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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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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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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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
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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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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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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’ve had my share of angels.
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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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Make something beautiful of your life.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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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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