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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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Action Become Destiny Omisison
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
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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Information Ironically Language Learning Process Specialised Volume
She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.
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Chasing Died Each Elsewhere Greatness Hand never Saw Seeking Time
She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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Assumed Bent Child Children Life Meaning Over Realized Sort Tragedy Year
In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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Cutting Medicine Short Cut Stamina Writing
Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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Another Day Gift Inevitable Paradise Pillow Precious Pronouncement Settled
She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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Calmness Emergency Falseness Familiar Fashion Feeling Felt Medicine
The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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Crookedness Enough Serpent Slide Snake
Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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Birth Broken Fixing Moment Occur Sometimes Wound
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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Climbing Escaping House Ladder Many Pulling Tree Way
A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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Covered Earth Fault Man Money Surgeon
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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Best Computer Hospitalized Important Patient Screen Understand Way
Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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Anthropologist Baptism Inauhrating President Ritual Transformation Use
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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Angel Back Blessed Country Funny Hold People Thank You Thing
Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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Definition Home House Question Wanted

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