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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.

Abraham Verghese

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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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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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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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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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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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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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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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Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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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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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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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By Dream Success Hard Work Know Only Way
Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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