Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThere is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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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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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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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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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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