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Being the first born gives you great patience.

Abraham Verghese

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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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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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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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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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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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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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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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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 love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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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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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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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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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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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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