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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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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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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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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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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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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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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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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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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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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
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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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