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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read

Abraham Verghese

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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Broken End Fixing Generation Hole Metaphors Precisely Shiva Task
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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Body Feeling Leave Physician Sense Technology Visualize Wonderful
How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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Brethren Country Least Measure Treat
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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Best Country Delay Enjoy Flight Perhaps Seem Word
We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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Believe Herat Inspiration Motivation Patient Transcendent
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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Cancer Flip Leave Mind People Side Suicide
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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Backward Caught Forward Life Look Near Stop Understand Wheel
No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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Blade Heart Human Parenting Puncture Son Spiteful
What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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Country Disease Fight Fighting Godly Poverty
Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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Country Interlude Less Life Meal More
The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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Hand Human Important Innovation Inspiration Medicine Motivation Ten Year
We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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Believe Deepen Heal Ministering Will Wound Woundedness
I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
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Hookworm Hunger People Scripture Thinking
Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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Clumsy Exam Getting Heartbeat Patient
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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Disease Element Good Handling Healing Job Mean Physical Spiritual
I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
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Country Foreign Graduate Man Medical Men Resident Thinking

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