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I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.

Abraham Verghese

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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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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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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.
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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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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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