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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. Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read

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  Loyalty, Broken, Lovely

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• I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.

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  Thinking, People, Scripture

  Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.113, Random House India

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• Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.

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  Vanity, Yesterday, Riches

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• The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.

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  Way, Where You Are, Knows

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• We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.

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  Years, Medicine, Suffering

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• Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.

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  Patient, Exam, Heartbeat

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• I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.

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  Believe, Past, Black

  "Cutting for Stone". Book by Abraham Verghese, February 2009.

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• When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact. There's no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.

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  Selfish, Heart, Winning

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• She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.

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  Greatness, Hands, Saws

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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. 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. 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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  Beautiful, Country, Caring

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• She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.

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  Medicine, Feelings, Emergencies

  Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.42, Random House India

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• She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life... As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.

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  Children, Years, Tragedy

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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. 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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  Blessed, Thinking, America

  Interview with John McMurtrie, www.sfgate.com. March 14, 2010.

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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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  Shows, Love To Read, Willing

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• I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.

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  Destiny, Geography, Believer

  "A Novel That's the Best Medicine". Interview with Tina Brown, www.thedailybeast.com. February 11, 2009.

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

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  Snakes, Slides, Enough

  Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.385, Random House India

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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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  Ordinary, Sacred, Intrusion

  Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.375, Random House India

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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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  Meals

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• That's the funny thing about America--the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others. I've had my share of angels.

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  Thank You, Blessed, Angel

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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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  Paradise, Another Day, Precious Gifts

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• Geography is destiny.

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  Destiny, Geography

  Abraham Verghese (2016). “My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and its People in the Age of AIDS”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Memories, Stories, Alive

  Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.272, Random House India

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• I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.

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  Motivation, Believe, Inspiration

  "A doctor's touch". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July 2011.

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• Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.

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  Mind, Bowels, Be Careful

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• Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. 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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  Uncles, School, Role Models

  "A Novel That's the Best Medicine". Interview with Tina Brown, www.thedailybeast.com. February 11, 2009.

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