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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.

Abraham Verghese

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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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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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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.
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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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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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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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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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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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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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Geography is destiny.
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When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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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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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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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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