Cutting for Stone

or the secret of the care of the patient
is in caring for the patient.

The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you.”

“Because, Marion, you are an instrument of God. Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can play the ‘Gloria’?”

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

They couldn't have been more disappointed had she become a Muslim or a Hindu.

The Portuguese clawed out a colonial seat in Goa, torturing the Hindu population into Catholic converts

India had unfathomable needs. But that would never change and was no excuse;

I squirmed. How easily Matron probed the gap between ambition and expediency. “Why must I do what is hardest?”
“Because, Marion, you are an instrument of God. Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case,