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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.

Abraham Verghese

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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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When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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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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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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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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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
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I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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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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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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