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.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI 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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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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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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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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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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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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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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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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