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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.

Abraham Verghese

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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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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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Geography is destiny.
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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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Being Born First Giving Great Patience
As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep 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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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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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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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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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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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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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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