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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.

Abraham Verghese

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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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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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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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