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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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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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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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Book Feeling Lovely Meaningful Read Writing
Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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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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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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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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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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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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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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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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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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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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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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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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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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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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