The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEIn America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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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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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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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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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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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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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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