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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.

Abraham Verghese

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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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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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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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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.
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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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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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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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