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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.

Abraham Verghese

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Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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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
He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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The Country Doctor Revisited captures the trials and tribulations of medicine, but also the satisfaction and the extraordinary rewards that come to those who embrace such a practice.
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Black Country Day Doctor Image Medicine Revisited Romantic Rural Technology
Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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Action Destiny Idea Innovation Omission Success
In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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Comfort Ears Emergencies Treatment Word
We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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Broken Fixing Generations Next Unfinished
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
If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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Battle Beat Cancer Fortunate Long Posthumously Praised Succumbed
I’ve had my share of angels.
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Angel Gift Surprise Mine Share Unique
The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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Administered Blink Comfort Ear Emergency Father Gaze Treatment
When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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