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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.

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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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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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You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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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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Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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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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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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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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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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