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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.

Abraham Verghese

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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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Body Feeling Leave Physician Sense Technology Visualize Wonderful
Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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Broken Family Ground Indian Modern New Read Sandip Roy Tale
When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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Call Hardly Himself Man Mysterious Mystery
If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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Allow Fellow Make Nothing Observation Opportunity Prolonged Traveler
We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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Beyond Common Death Early Lucky Purpose Unbidden
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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Alive Currency Memories Memory Proof Stories
Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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Contemptible Misspent Rich Valuable Vanity Wisdom Yesterday
We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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Believe Beyond Death Doctor Early Lucky Physician Purpose Starvation Unbidden
And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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Ability Completely End Language Medical Partly Specialized Teach Third Year
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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Bent Child Death Entirely Over Realized She Tragedy Unfulfilled
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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Broken Evocative Family Lovely Loyalty Secret Share Stay Told
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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Helping Home Patient
I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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Believe Black Future Hoe Past Smack Universe
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
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
What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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Administered Ear Emergency Treatment

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