Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
ABRAHAM VERGHESE
Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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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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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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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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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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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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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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