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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.

Abraham Verghese
Uncles, School, Role Models
"A Novel That's the Best Medicine". Interview with Tina Brown, www.thedailybeast.com. February 11, 2009.
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.