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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.

Abraham Verghese

In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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Comfort Ears Emergencies Treatment Word
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
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.
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Access Blessed Care Country Health Insured Kind Thinking
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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Altogether Another Care Cost Health Much Problem Reform Story
There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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Book Feeling Lovely Meaningful Read Writing
The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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Associate Baptism Elaborate Inauguration Marriage President Ritual
We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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Broken Fixing Generations Next Unfinished
The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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Bottom Care Health Line Patient Physician Reform
That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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Angel Back Blessed Country Funny Hold People Thank You Thing
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
If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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Battle Beat Cancer Fortunate Long Posthumously Praised Succumbed
Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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Alive Beautiful Imagination Keeping Literature Time World
Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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Clinical Conversion Cynical Medical School Student Undergo Year
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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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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Helping Home Patient
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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Absurdity Arrive Descend Hole Job Place Point Preserve relief Yourself

Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.

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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.

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