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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?’ ‘

Abraham Verghese

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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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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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I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.
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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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God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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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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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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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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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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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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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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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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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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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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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 love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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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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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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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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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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