There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
ABRAHAM VERGHESECertainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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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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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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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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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 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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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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