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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.

Abraham Verghese

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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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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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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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According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
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I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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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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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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