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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.

Abraham Verghese

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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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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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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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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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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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The Country Doctor Revisited captures the trials and tribulations of medicine, but also the satisfaction and the extraordinary rewards that come to those who embrace such a practice.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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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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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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