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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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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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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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At times, with today’s advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America’s cities, but the variety of practices is enormous.
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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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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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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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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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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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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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