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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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Beyond Common Death Early Lucky Purpose Unbidden
If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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Ecstasy Happened Intrusion Ordinary Sacred Sudden
I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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Become Found Grew Physician Purpose Up
Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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Even Fascinated Knowledge More Wisdom
Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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Dynamic Grew Ignorance Knowledge Proportion Same
We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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Believe Deepen Heal Ministering Will Wound Woundedness
We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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Believe Beyond Death Doctor Early Lucky Physician Purpose Starvation Unbidden
…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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Action Guilt Lead Rarely Right Righteous
He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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Climbing Escaping House Ladder Many Pulling Tree Way
The Country Doctor Revisited captures the trials and tribulations of medicine, but also the satisfaction and the extraordinary rewards that come to those who embrace such a practice.
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Black Country Day Doctor Image Medicine Revisited Romantic Rural Technology
Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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Contemptible Misspent Rich Valuable Vanity Wisdom Yesterday
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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Apt Divide Family Hole Kind Metaphor Profession Still
According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
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Broken End Fixing Generation Hole Metaphors Precisely Shiva Task
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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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
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