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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil

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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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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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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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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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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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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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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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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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