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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.

Abraham Verghese

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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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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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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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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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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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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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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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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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