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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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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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Airports Body Country Doe Information Interest Opportunity Treasure
How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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Brethren Country Least Measure Treat
My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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Deathbed Heart Mean Patient People Regret VIP
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
What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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Book Clothes Fewer Man Men
The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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Action Know Omission Turn Whether World
I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams.
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Age Care Constant Dream Dying Feeling Hearing People Taking Transient
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
There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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Capacity Composed Emote Grief Human Result Strangely
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 pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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Describe Interest Number One Only Pray Read Two Would Zero
Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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Absurdity Arrive Descend Hole Job Place Point Preserve relief Yourself
At times, with today’s advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America’s cities, but the variety of practices is enormous.
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Advance Medicine Technology Time Today Variety
The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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God Greatest Ignoring Made Possible Sin
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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Access Blessed Care Country Health Insured Kind Thinking
You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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Backward Forward Inspire Life Live Understand

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