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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.

Abraham Verghese

I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
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Country Foreign Graduate Man Medical Men Resident Thinking
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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Beyond Common Death Early Lucky Purpose Unbidden
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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Chasing Died Each Elsewhere Greatness Hand never Saw Seeking Time
…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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Action Guilt Lead Rarely Right Righteous
A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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Covered Earth Fault Man Money Surgeon
God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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Care God Human Being Judge Judging Relieve Suffering Thinking
A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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Bag Beautiful Black Caring Collection Country Literary Remove Romantic
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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Cancer Crossed Cut Cutting Dessented Excised High Ocean Past Plain Plan
How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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Brethren Country Least Measure Treat
Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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Definition Home House Question Wanted
I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams.
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Age Care Constant Dream Dying Feeling Hearing People Taking Transient
What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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Administered Ear Emergency Treatment
There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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Book Feeling Lovely Meaningful Read Writing
Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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Country Interlude Less Life Meal More
I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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Believe Black Future Hoe Past Smack Universe
There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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Capacity Composed Emote Grief Human Result Strangely

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