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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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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
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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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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
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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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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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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 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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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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