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“What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”

Quote by Abraham Verghese

Book:Cutting for Stone

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Cutting for Stone

Cutting for Stone is a narrative that intertwines the lives of two brothers born of a secret union between a nun and a surgeon. The story unfolds in the backdrop of a turbulent Africa, focusing on their journey through medical school and the complexities of their personal and professional lives. more

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Abraham Verghese

Abraham Verghese is an American writer and physician, renowned for his extensive experience in medicine and his profound literary talent. His works often focus on the relationship between doctors and patients, as well as his deep insights into medical practice. more

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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.”

“Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.”

Mind Careful Be Careful Bowels

Author:Abraham Verghese

“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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Author:Abraham Verghese

“Sometimes when persons say definitely it sounds actually less true.”

Persons Sometimes Sound

Author:Emma Donoghue

“I've been writing full-time since I was 23.”

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“The idea was to focus on the primal drama of parenthood: the way from moment to moment you swing from comforter to tormentor, just as kids simultaneously light up our lives and drive us nuts. I was trying to capture that strange, bipolar quality of parenthood. For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have.”

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“Nowadays, 'invisibility' was supposed to be the big problem, but the way I saw it was, all that mattered was to be visible to yourself.”

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Book:Hood

Source: Hood

“You ought to be able to grow up in a place and not have to get the hell out of it when you turn eighteen.”

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Book:American Rust

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“No land was ever acquired honestly in the history of the earth.”

Earth Land Honestly

Book:The Son

Source: The Son

“The entire history of humanity is marked by a single inexorable movement - from animal instinct toward rational thought, from inborn behavior toward acquired knowledge. A half-grown panther abandoned in the wilderness will grow up to be a perfectly normal panther. But a half-grown child similarly abandoned will grow up into an unrecognizable savage, unfit for normal society. Yet there are those who insist the opposite: that we are creatures of instinct, like wolves.”