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. (Abraham Verghese)

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.

Abraham Verghese

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