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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
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
Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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Even Fascinated Knowledge More Wisdom
I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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Become Found Grew Physician Purpose Up
The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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Associate Baptism Elaborate Inauguration Marriage President Ritual
According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
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Broken End Fixing Generation Hole Metaphors Precisely Shiva Task
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
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
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
What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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Administered Ear Emergency Treatment
Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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Country Interlude Less Life Meal More
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
In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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Cutting Medicine Short Cut Stamina Writing
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
In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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Always Attack Battle Cancer Country Poison Taken
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
It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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Eerie Feeling Mentor Mouthpiece Old Room Shoe
Make something beautiful of your life.
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Beautiful Create Dream Journey Life m Wonder Something
I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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Back Carried Educated Looking Physician Probably Uncle Well
What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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Country Disease Fight Fighting Godly Poverty
They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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Church Eulogy Legacy Matter Money Procession Realize Remove Service
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.
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Conscious Exact Moment Professor Teacher Trotting Year
How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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Brethren Country Least Measure Treat
I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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Angry Dream Feeling Hurt Loved Myself Togetherness Unreasonable
Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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Anthropologist Baptism Inauhrating President Ritual Transformation Use
What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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Empathy Huge Learning Medical Need Process School Sight Volume
You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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God Instrument Leave Play Sitting Son Three

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