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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,

Abraham Verghese

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The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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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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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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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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When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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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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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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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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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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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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