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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.

Abraham Verghese

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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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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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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 think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.
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The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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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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I 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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I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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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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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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