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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.

Abraham Verghese

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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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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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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 have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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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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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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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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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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I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams.
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Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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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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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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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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