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

Abraham Verghese

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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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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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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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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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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 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 was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams.
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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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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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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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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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