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ABRAHAM VERGHESERituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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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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Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
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You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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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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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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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.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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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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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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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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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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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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