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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession

Abraham Verghese

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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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