If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThe greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams.
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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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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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