Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThe most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
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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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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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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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I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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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.
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The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
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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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If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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