You live it forward, but understand it backward.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThere is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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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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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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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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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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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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Geography is destiny.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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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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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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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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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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