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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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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 it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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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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Endeavor Good Heart Human Key Limitless Medicine Requiring Science Thinking
That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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Average Healthcare Physicians
My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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Admit Certainly Doctor Intent Myself One Subconsciously World Young
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
Geography is destiny.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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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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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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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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